Dorr's Rebellion

[dawrz]

noun

1. an insurrection in Rhode Island (1842) that grew out of dissatisfaction with the existing state constitution, which restricted suffrage to landholders or their eldest sons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dorr's Rebellion¹

Named after Thomas W. Dorr (1805–54), state legislator and leader of the insurrection

Example Sentences

He pronounced his treatment of Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dorr's "rebellion" in Rhode Island, by which T.W.

From Project Gutenberg

The result of this hostility of the propertied classes was a rising in 1840 of the workingmen in what is slurringly misdescribed in conventional history as "Dorr's Rebellion,"—an event the real history of which has not as yet been told.

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It trampled beneath its feet the broad seal of the State of New Jersey, and encouraged Dorr's rebellion.

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Then Dorr's Rebellion, almost culminating in bloodshed, brought about a reform in 1843 which introduced a slight tax-paying qualification as an alternative to the freehold.

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