Attempt to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island
Dorr Rebellion
A polemic applauding Democratic support of the Dorrite cause in Rhode Island, 1844
Date
1841–1842
Location
Rhode Island, United States
Result
Charterite victory
Belligerents
Charterites
Dorrites
Commanders and leaders
Samuel Ward King
Thomas Wilson Dorr
The Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842) (also referred to as Dorr's Rebellion, Dorr's War or Dorr War) was an attempt by disenfranchised residents to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of government. It was led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who mobilized the disenfranchised to demand changes to the state's electoral rules. The state was still using its 1663 colonial charter as a constitution; it required that voters own land as qualification to vote. The rebellion established a parallel government alongside the existing chartered government and wrote a new constitution for Rhode Island. Although the rebellion was crushed militarily, it forced the rewriting of the state constitution to expand eligibility to vote.
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to their power. Ultimately, they brought in the militia to crush the rebellion and hanged its leaders. It is estimated that out of the 8,000 people living...
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use the army to suppress a popular rebellion against the state government in Rhode Island called the DorrRebellion. He did not send it in. Unlike most...
Island in the 1840s, brought into existence as a consequence of the DorrRebellion. In 1840, Rhode Island still used as its constitution the King's Charter...
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unions in the New England area. He was a key player in Rhode Island's DorrRebellion of 1842, where the working people of Rhode Island took up arms in an...
and Dorr's supporters held separate elections, and two rival governments claimed sovereignty over the state. Dorr's supporters led an armed rebellion against...
the state level. Thomas Dorr was convicted for treason against the state of Rhode Island for his part in the DorrRebellion, but was eventually granted...
and widely supported, except in Rhode Island. In Rhode Island, the DorrRebellion of the 1840s demonstrated that the demand for equal suffrage was broad...
expansion of suffrage was largely peaceful, excepting the Rhode Island DorrRebellion. Most African-American men remained excluded; though the Fifteenth Amendment...
in the Rhode Island Voting Crisis, leading to the DorrRebellion. The party was founded by Thomas Dorr, as an alternative to the old-guard legislature which...
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Global Information
Charterites