| 单词 | regulator movement |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRegulator movement Regulator movement n. American History a popular movement of protest against widespread lawlessness and official corruption in the Carolinas (chiefly North Carolina) in the late 1760s, developing into an uprising against the colonial government (see sense 4). ΚΠ 1851 B. J. Lossing Pict. Field-bk. Revol. I. xv. 349 It was in schools like..the Regulator movement in the Carolinas, that the people were tutored for the firm resistance which they made to British oppressions. 1910 H. A. Bruce Daniel Boone & Wilderness Road xiii. 130 As the Regulator Movement had demonstrated in the case of the North Carolina system, the oligarchic and the autocratic could not hope to endure in the free air of the border. 2002 N. A. Hamilton Rebels & Renegades ii. 40 The Regulator movement began late in 1767 as an attempt by small farmers to establish order. < as lemmas |
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