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Carolina Regulators

Carolina Regulators
Vigilante groups called the Regulators opposed government corruption in the Carolinas and demanded greater western representation. This drawing shows the British colonial governor of North Carolina, William Tryon, supressing a Regulator insurrection in 1771.
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