In the Balkans, Serbia had won autonomy in 1817, and southern Greece won independence in the 1830s. But many Serbs and Greeks still lived in the Balkans under Ottoman rule. The Ottoman empire was home to other national groups, such as Bulgarians and Romanians. During the 1800s, various subject peoples staged revolts against the Ottomans, hoping to set up their own independent states.
Such nationalist stirrings became mixed up with the ambitions of the great European powers. In the mid-1800s, Europeans came to see the Ottoman empire as "the sick man of Europe." Eagerly, they scrambled to divide up Ottoman lands. Russia pushed south toward the Black Sea and Istanbul, which Russians still called Constantinople. Austria-Hungary took control of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This action angered the Serbs, who also had hoped to expand into that area. Meanwhile, Britain and France set their sights on other Ottoman lands in the Middle East and North Africa.
"Dollar diplomacy" aimed at keeping financial stability in the Caribbean basin area and at expanding and protecting financial and commercial American interests. The Taft´s foreign policy especially encouraged US businesses to invest in the Caribbean, the administration hoped that it would have a stabilizing effect on weak governments there. Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are examples of the application of "dollar diplomacy."
However, Thanksgiving was always the last Thursday in November because that was the day President Abraham Lincoln observed the holiday when he declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
I believe the answer you are looking for is: "a violent or destructive protest." The government would be most likely to become involved in a union protest that is violent or destructive.
