<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Yadkin River </Li> <Li> Alamance </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Yadkin River </Li> <Li> Alamance </Li> </Ul> <P> The War of the Regulation or the Regulator Movement was an uprising in the British North America's Carolina colonies, lasting from about 1765 to 1771, in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials . Though the rebellion did not change the power structure, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War . </P> <P> The origins of the War of Regulation stem from a dramatic population increase in North and South Carolina in the 1760s, following migration from the larger eastern cities to the rural west . The inland section of the colonies had once been predominantly composed of planters with an agricultural economy . </P>

How was the rebellion of the regulators in north carolina similar to the american revolution