TruthHurtz: Man and Mankind..... American and African American

Rebellion is a refusal of obedience or order.
It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience and mass nonviolent resistance, to violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as the government.
Those who participate in rebellions are known as "rebels". A rebel is distinguished from an outsider.
An outsider is one who is excluded from a group whereas a rebel goes against it.
Also, a rebel's potential to overthrow the leadership is recognized and substantial, unless the rebellion is crushed, whereas an outsider has been marginalized and is considered to be degenerate.

Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, a famous Frisian folk hero and rebel
Throughout history, many different groups that opposed their governments have been called rebels.
Over 450 peasant revolts erupted in southwestern France between 1590 and 1715.
In the United States, the term was used for the Continentals by the British in the Revolutionary War, and the Confederacy by the Union in the American Civil War.
Most armed rebellions have not been against authority in general, but rather have sought to establish a new government in their place.
For example,
the Boxer Rebellion sought to implement a stronger government in China in place of the weak and divided government of the time.
The Jacobite Risings
(called "Jacobite Rebellions" by the government)
attempted to restore the deposed Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland, rather than abolish the monarchy completely.

The Confederate States of America
(also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and the CSA)
was an unrecognized state set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S.
The CSA's de facto control over its claimed territory varied during the course of the American Civil War, depending on the success of its military in battle.
Asserting that states had a right to secede, seven states declared their independence from the United States before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President on March 4, 1861; four more did so after the Civil War began at the Battle of Fort Sumter
(April 1861).
The government of the United States of America
(The Union)
regarded secession as illegal and refused to recognize the Confederacy. Although British and French commercial interests sold warships and materials to the Confederacy, no European or other foreign nation officially recognized the CSA as an independent country.
The CSA effectively collapsed when Grant captured Richmond and Lee's army in April 1865 and the remaining Confederate forces surrendered by the end of June, as the U.S. Army took control of the South.
Because Congress was not sure that
white Southerners had really given up slavery
or their dreams of Confederate nationalism, a decade-long process known as Reconstruction expelled
ex-Confederate
leaders from office,
enacted civil rights legislation
(including the right to vote)
that included the freedmen
(ex-slaves),
and imposed conditions on the readmission of the states to Congress.
The war left the South economically prostrate and none of the states regained prosperity until after 1945.