Peasants’ Revolt, also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century. The rebellion drew support from several sources and included well-to-do artisans and villeins as well as the destitute. Probably the main grievance of the agricultural labourers and urban working classes was the Statute of Labourers (1351), which attempted to fix maximum wages during the labour shortage following the Black Death.
The uprising was centred in the southeastern counties and East Anglia, with minor disturbances in other areas. It began in Essex in May, taking the government of the young king Richard II by surprise. In June rebels from Essex and Kent marched toward London. On the 13th the Kentish men, under Wat Tyler (q.v.), entered London, where they massacred some Flemish merchants and razed the palace of the king’s uncle, the unpopular John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The government was compelled to negotiate. On the 14th Richard met the men of Essex outside London at Mile End, where he promised cheap land, free trade, and the abolition of serfdom and forced labour. During the king’s absence, the Kentish rebels in the city forced the surrender of the Tower of London; the chancellor, Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, and the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, both of whom were held responsible for the poll tax, were beheaded.
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The Civil right were also referred as the second reconstruction because the nation began to correct civil and human rights abuses that had lingered in American society for a century and against segregation and discrimination that burst out following World War II.It shared many similarities with the period of Reconstruction which followed the American Civil War. The second reconstruction period featured active participation on the part of African-Americans to regain their rights that they had lost during the period of Redemption (U.S. history) and Jim Crow segregation in the latter part of the nineteenth century. During this period, African-Americans once again began holding various political offices, and reasserting and reclaiming their civil and political rights as American citizens.
Initially, each representative mandated for around 30,000 people. Nowadays, because of the increase in population, each representative mandated for around a million people. With an increase or a decrease in population it might change in the future.
