High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.

Alarmist rhetoric has been used multiple times in America’s past with the express intent of fomenting a rebellion or even a coup. The game is to create a sense of urgency in the hopes that enough people will commit to extreme actions, so you can get what you want (which is power).

According to Wikipedia, there have been 13 coup attempts in the United States since it won its independence from the British crown, plus an additional 29 rebellions and well, lots of moments of civil unrest. Things are not always happy and peaceful in the Land of the Free. Often because some people don’t think everyone should, in fact, be free.

Here's a look at those that occurred before the 20th century.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:54 - Early Daze - Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676); the Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) and George Washington's spectacles, the Pennsylvania Mutiny (1783)
2. 09:16 - Dorr's Rebellion - Rhode Island (1841)
3. 11:47 - The Status of Slavery - Slave revolt in Orleans (1811), Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia (1831); largest slave escape (1842), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859), John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia (1859), states secede (1861), Sam Houston deposed in Texas, militia groups form throughout the South after the Civil War
4. 18:31 - Brindletails and Minstrels - The Brooks–Baxter War in Arkansas (1874)
5. 25:23 - The Battle of Liberty Place, New Orleans (1874) - Rise of the White League and another city under siege, the Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
6. 33:53 - The Jaybird-Woodpecker War, Texas (1888)
7. 37:47 - The Secret Nine and the Wilmington Insurrection in North Carolina (1898) - The Populists and Fusionists, the Secret Nine and the Committee of Twenty-Five, the Red Shirts

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

Lapsus Linguae: At 33:44, I say the Wilmington Insurrection was also in the 1880s, but it was not.

More Info

• EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans
• EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA
• Bacon's Rebellion on Historic Jamestowne page on the National Park Service website
• George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783 at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• The Pennsylvania Mutiny - This Day in History - June 20, 1783 on The Constitutional Walking Tour
• The Dorr Rebellion on Rhode Tour
• Our Hidden History: Racism and Black suffrage in the Dorr Rebellion in The Providence Journal
• The Enslaved Peoples’ Uprising of 1811 on New Orleans Historical
• Nat Turner’s Revolt (1831) on Encyclopedia Virginia
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) at the National Archives
• Bleeding Kansas on the American Battlefield Trust
• Bleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry on Civil War on the Western Border
• Remembering John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry on ReImagine Appalachia
• Sam Houston and Texas Secession on the Abbeville Institute