The act of rebellion is one of the oldest American traditions there is. If it weren’t for rebellion, there wouldn’t have been a United States of America. If it weren’t for rebellion, I very well may have been born a slave to be sold in open the market. One thing that we Americans do, and do often, is rebel. America is a nation of rebels, and potential rebels.  The Declaration of Independence itself was an act of rebellion. Before that, there was the Boston Tea Party Rebellion in 1773. In the late 1600’s Mennonite Quakers peacefully and quite nobly I might add, rebelled against the institution of slavery.  There have been many slave rebellions, some well-known and some not so well-known. The Civil War was an act of rebellion of southern states against northern states. Northerners used to call confederate soldiers ‘Johnny Reb’. Even after the South surrendered to the North, there were still mini rebellions popping up all over the...(Read Full Article)