The farmers of Scania had even since the time when they were a part of the Danish empire, lived on the lands of the nobles and had to pay hefty amounts of rent to the upper class.

Due to his claims, Samuel Tullberg's house would be raided by the authorities and he would be put into custody after a confrontation with his followers in Trannebygget and Kärrstorp on vague accusations of treason.

[5] Although the superiority of the nobility over the peasantry was not something exclusive to Scania, the power balance between the two continued to exist long into the 19th century which made it a local phenomenon as farmers in the rest of Sweden did reside on the noble's land.

[1] Scanian farmers followed the national trend of becoming more educated during the 19th century as numerous schools opened up throughout Scania, making them a more integral part of the Swedish society and economy.

[3][6] At the beginning of 1867, the lawyer Samuel Tullberg and his companion David Malmqvist, seeking to de-legitimize the validity of the nobility's claims upon Scanian farmland, read through numerous old documents detailing the ownership of the local land dating back hundreds of years.

[3][2] Although he had misinterpreted the documents and the upper class was in their full right to collect rent from the farmers, the 'Tullberg movement' (Swedish: Tullbergska rörelsen) received 252 new members as a result and Tullberg became a local celebrity.

[3][1] Mattä Mårtendotter traveled up to Stockholm to present their case in front of the king of Sweden with five other farmers, Karl XV, the delegation was to only be made up of the most important figures of the movement.

[1] Many more farmers later, in a similar fashion, also moved up to Stockholm to put their case forward in the press seeing much success as the Tullberg movement cause became a discussed matter.

[3][2][6] On the 14 and 15th of November, a case of arson had been reported in Barseback, it was only in March of the next year were the perpetrator was found to be Lars Nilsson who was charged with attempted murder.

[3][6] The first evictions took place in November 1868, Von Troil had sent a large force to aid the authorities to hopefully prevent any resistance from the Scanians who had proven to be capable of engaging the government.

Von Troil, fearing that the situation could get out of hand, ordered 1 hussar squadron, and two south Scanian infantry battalions to assist the evictors.

The gathered mob of farmers at first restricted themselves to verbally abusing and threatening the authorities, though things escalated when Christian Andersson was to be evicted on the 11th of December.

[4][3][1] By now, the nobleman Arvid Posse, who had faced the wrath of the farmers, sought a way to improve the leadership of the Tullberg movement to minimize the risk of its spread across the country.

[3] On vague legal grounds on the 13th of February, Arvid Posse managed to get Samuel Tullberg and his allies wanted for treason, and large military forces were deployed to Scania to conduct a county-wide manhunt.