摘要：The use of social movements was a key feature triggered by men who lived in Portuguese America to make their demands were met, either locally or in relation to the Portuguese monarch. Not always successful, such challenges affect the daily lives, generate political instability in the achievements, but also reveals something about the profile of those who lived on the other side of the Atlantic. In this case, this Communication aims to analyze the way as they did the rioters as well as revealing how they were viewed by both the Portuguese crown as those suffered by such statements.
