[ladyjane]

Didn't this sort of thing happen quite a bit before the Revolutionary War and the Civil War?

You're right. Remember Shay's Rebellion. The people with power squeezed the little people too much. It will happen again.

[wideawake]

Shay's Rebellion happened five years after the War of Independence ended, and 75 years before the Civil War began.

Shay's Rebellion was the precursor and predictor of no wider movement.

Shay's Rebellion was put down quickly by the state government, and is considered by some to be a contributing factor to the US Constitution being much more strongly federal than the Articles of Confederation - but the Rebellion was a complete failure that produced nothing..