What Are The Causes Of The Paxton Boys Rebellion

Paxton Boys The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen Scots-Irish origin who were considered a vigilante group. The village of Paxton was a rapid growth for racial and political disorder during Pontiacs Rebellion. Pontiac’s rebellion was a way in 1763 that was between Native American Tribes that were unhappy with British postwar policies in the Great Lake region. The Native tribes were dissatisfied with the defeat of the French in the French and Indian war. Paxton was still populated with many Scot-Irish immigrants who were tired of the colonies reasons to not attack. The legislators, who were mainly Quakers, were the ones who were ignoring the request for army supplies and soldiers.
Penn’s long standing relationship with the natives was falling apart. Penn and the Quakers had made
Besides revealing the prevailing bias of frontiersmen against Native Americans, the Paxton Boys uprising also took on a political tone. Residents of the Pennsylvania backcountry were already embittered over the eastern counties’ disproportionate control over the colony’s legislature and the failure of the eastern-dominated legislature to provide adequate appropriations for defense of the frontier. Consequently, sparked by the events surrounding the Paxton Boys massacre (the Conestoga Massacre), about 600 armed frontiersmen marched on Philadelphia in January 1764 to vent their anger against the provincial assembly. A delegation of prominent Philadelphians, including Franklin, met the protesters and restrained them from entering the city by promising them that the legislature would provide a thorough hearing of their complaints. The assembly offered no redress for the protesters’ main grievances, though, and the colony’s Proprietary Party publicized the incident to their advantage in their campaign during the election of 1764.”