"Massive Resistance"

(noun)

A strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia on February 24, 1956, to unite other white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. 

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Examples of "Massive Resistance" in the following topics:

  • Disease in the New World

    • Rampant epidemic disease, to which the natives had no prior exposure or resistance, was one of the main causes of the massive population decline of the indigenous populations of the Americas.
    • After the epidemics had already killed massive numbers of indigenous Americans, many newer European immigrants assumed that there had always been relatively few indigenous peoples.

  • Gabriel's Rebellion

    • Although plans of this uprising were leaked prior to their execution, the event highlighted the potential for slave-organized resistance and revealed inconsistencies within American ideals of freedom.
    • It also had a massive impact on the treatment of slaves in the American South.
    • Gabriel's uprising was notable not because of its results—the rebellion was quelled before it could begin—but because it demonstrated the potential for mass resistance and revolution.
    • For many southern white slave owners, Gabriel's Rebellion proved that slaves would tend toward rebellion and resistance if not kept forcibly contained and controlled.
    • For many slaves and free African Americans, the rebellion proved the power of strategic organization and resistance.

  • D-Day and After

    • Through the London-based État-major des Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (French Forces of the Interior), the British Special Operations Executive orchestrated a massive campaign of sabotage to be implemented by the French Resistance.
    • The Allies developed four plans for the Resistance to execute on D-Day.
    • The resistance was alerted to carry out these tasks by messages personnels transmitted by the BBC's French service from London.
    • In the weeks preceding the landings, lists of messages and their meanings were distributed to resistance groups.
    • Transportation infrastructure in France was severely disrupted by Allied bombers and the French Resistance, making it difficult for the Germans to bring up reinforcements and supplies.

  • Resistance to Slavery

    • Slaves resisted oppression in several ways ranging from rebellions and uprisings to sabotage, running away, and destruction of plantation property.
    • African slaves resisted enslavement and the southern plantation economy in a variety of ways, ranging from violent rebellion to sabotage, infanticide, suicide, running away, and the deliberate destruction of plantation property.
    • Although African slaves never successfully revolted and overturned the institution of slavery like their counterparts in Haiti, there was a near-constant undercurrent of resistance to enslavement in the American colonies.
    • Ever fearful of an uprising among enslaved New Yorkers, the city’s whites spread rumors that the fires were part of a massive slave revolt in which slaves would murder whites, burn the city, and take over the colony.
    • Differentiate between the various forms of slave resistance in the United States and the reactions to them

  • Rotational Inertia

    • Furthermore, we know that the more massive the door, the more slowly it opens.
    • Rotational inertia, as illustrated in , is the resistance of objects to changes in their rotation.
    • The more massive the wheel, the smaller the angular acceleration.

  • Resistance and Resistivity

    • Resistance and resistivity describe the extent to which an object or material impedes the flow of electric current.
    • Conductance and resistance are reciprocals .
    • What determines resistivity?
    • Its resistance to the flow of current is similar to the resistance posed by a pipe to fluid flow.
    • Identify properties of the material that are described by the resistance and resistivity

  • Resistance to French Rule

  • Dependence of Resistance on Temperature

    • Resistivity and resistance depend on temperature with the dependence being linear for small temperature changes and nonlinear for large.
    • The resistivity of all materials depends on temperature.
    • where ρ0 is the original resistivity and α is the temperature coefficient of resistivity.
    • is the temperature dependence of the resistance of an object, where R0 is the original resistance and R is the resistance after a temperature change T.
    • Compare temperature dependence of resistivity and resistance for large and small temperature changes

  • Mechanisms of Resistance

    • Resistance can be mediated by the environment or the microorganism itself .
    • Intrinsic resistance is considered to be a natural and inherited property with high predictability.
    • Once the identity of the organism is known, the aspects of its anti-microbial resistance are also recognized.
    • On the other hand, acquired resistance results from a change in the organism's genetic makeup.
    • Describe the mechanisms bacteria use to develop antimicrobial resistance and the factors that can lead to it

  • Revolutionary Women

    • Just as spinning and weaving American cloth became a mechanism of resistance, so did many acts of consumption.
    • Nonimportation and nonconsumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against the British.
    • Resistance was another option for loyalist women.
    • There was a massive migration, not unlike the Great Migration, of blacks to urban areas in the North after the close of the war.