Broad Street Riot

Date: June 11, 1837 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1837.

Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.

The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Englanders, the Northeastern United States, the Northern United States, or to people from the US in general. Many of the earlier immigrants to the northeast from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and other regions of Europe used Yankees to refer to English settlers in New England.