Daniel Shaye was a poor farmhand from Massachusetts when the Revolution broke out. He joined the Continental Army where he fought at Lexington, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, and was eventually wounded in action. In 1780, he resigned from the army unpaid and went home to find himself in court for the nonpayment of debts. He soon found that he was not alone in being unable to pay his debts, and once even saw a sick woman who had her bed taken out from under her because she was also unable to pay. He started to get very angry about the country's actions. The rebellion started on August 29, 1786, and by January 1787, over one thousand Shaysites had been arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield…
Shays’ Rebellion can be considered a dispute with New England farmers and tradespersons that upset the new republic plunging the disconnected states to the brink of a civil war. The rebellion started in 1786 in Massachusetts and eventually spread into neighboring states finally crowning in a fruitless attack on a federal armory in Springfield. The rebellion began to wind down in 1787 most likely due to the election of a new governor that demonstrated a good example of local political conflict in the shadows post-revolution. Outlying factors that I believe played a role in the decline of the rebellion as well would be an economic upturn and the creation of…
Shay’s Rebellion is a rebellion started by Daniel Shay in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787. Daniel Shay was a Revolutionary War veteran and led four thousands rebels in a rebellion against economic and civil rights injustices. In 1787, Shay’s army marched into the United States Armory in Springfield to steal its weapons and to overthrow the government. Shay was unsuccessful however. This rebellion was in a political climate where reform of the Articles of Confederation was seen by people as something that was necessary to do. The rebellion affected the debates at the United States Constitutional Convention and shaped the new government. It drew George Washington out of retirement, which lead to him serving the United States as the first…
The Red King's Rebellion fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Before the conflict ended, over 9,000 people were dead (two-thirds of them Native Americans), and homelessness, starvation, and economic hardship plagued the descendants of both races for generations to come. In this fascinating book, Russell Bourne examines the epic struggle from both sides, seeking to explain how the biracial harmony that once reigned--when the Plymouth Colony's neighboring Wampanoag’s, under the stately Massasoit (King…
This reflected in the 1776 Pennsylvania State Constitution with an expansion of male franchise and civil liberties. Bouton posits that old and new thinking melded into an evolved perception of citizenship as “revolutionaries still considered the propertyless a possible threat.” However, the elite began to think that “giving the vote to ordinary folk was the only way to keep the wealthy in check.” By 1779, Bouton states that a growing number of Pennsylvanian elites began to shift position again, and question the level of democracy and “power” in the hands of the common Pennsylvanian.…
While some differences between second wave empires and river valley societies are noticeable, the similarities are far more pronounced. In comparison to the initial civilizations discussed in chapter two, the second wave empires were much larger and significantly more powerful. However this is nothing special because through much of history, empires and political organizations grew continuously stronger and held more authority, parallel to the development and understanding of humans. In contrast, second wave empires maintained many of the traits of the initial such as the practice of monarchs, patriarchy,…
In a time when peace treaties were given out, because of wars that ended like, the French and Native American war. Acts were placed and also repealed as in the Sugar and Stamp Act, because of this it caused the colonists to become outraged and create an uprising of rebellion. The House of Burgesses reacts strongly against British policies as the Boston Massacre happens when a british solider fires into a mob of colonists and the Committee of Correspondence is created by Samuel Adams, which begins the American Revolution. The American Revolution ends with the battle of Yorktown, which is know as the major battle in the Revolutionary war and resulted in America becoming independent. Settlers in the eighteenth-century America formed rebellion groups like, the Paxton Boys, Shay’s Rebellion, and the Whiskey Rebellion.…
America required a change in government because the federal government had no way to pay off its debt and the farmers rebelled in Shay’s Rebellion. After the war, America could not pay its debts to foreign countries and farmers could not pay their taxes on the land they were given to support the states during the war. Property taxes imposed to the newly acquired lands was too much for farmers to pay. Disgruntled farmers refused to have their farms foreclosed by local courts and barred them so the government could not reprocess the land. The rebellion was eventually stopped, but the lingering presence of a rebellion urged for the change in the government. America required a change in government due to the state of debt the entire country was…
The Rebellions of 1837 were a pair of Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 in response to frustrations in political reform and ethnic conflict. The rebellions occurred in two Canadian colonies: Lower Canada and Upper Canada. The Lower Canadian Rebellion was a larger and more sustained conflict pursued by French and English Canadian rebels against the British colonial government. The Upper Canadian Rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising in Upper Canada against the Family Compact. Although the Upper and Lower Canadian Rebellions differed, they shared the common goal of establishing a responsible government. In November 1837 the Lower Canadian Rebellion began…
The story of Moses is one of the more widely known stories from the Old Testament. The story is found in the book of Exodus and details the life of the prophet Moses. The story of Moses has been the basis of several Hollywood movies. One of the movies, The Prince of Egypt, is a cartoon depiction of the story of Moses. While the movie is very entertaining and will captivate a child’s attention from the beginning, there are not very many accurate details from the Biblical story.…
Moses: The spread of Judaism is not very wide. It dominates in only the Jerusalem area but nowhere else. I am happy that there is a spread of my followers all around the world though they are not in vast numbers.…
In the eighteenth-century, the American backcountry had often resorted to violent protests to express the grievances the colonists had due to unjust taxation and racial and political unrest. During the eighteenth-century in America, the colonists were settled in and began coming across individual rights and developed thoughts of their own government. There were three significant protests in the eighteenth-century American backcountry, March of the Paxton Boys, which were Scots-Irish frontiersmen from Pennsylvania who created a group in 1763 reacting towards local native Americans during the aftereffects of the French and Indian War as well as Pontiac's Rebellion; Shays' Rebellion, which were a chain of protest by American farmers from New Hampshire…
That so many people have read the Bible, and yet, I have never heard an argument posed strictly from internal Biblical evidence as to Moses’ ethnicity (even after searching the internet) indicates that truth can remain visible and yet, unnoticed, simply because people don't think; and, that people don't think for…
Machiavelli, N. (2013). The prince. In J. T. Wren (Ed.), Companion: insights on leadership through the ages [Kindle Edition], New York: The Free Press.…
A crostick is a poem that forms a vertical word from the first letters of each line. In this poem, the word "INSURGENTS" is formed with a verse that has nothing good to say about these men. The Regulators are called vengeful, seditious, jail-birds, and debtors who choose not to pay. The writer says that this word is not explained by Johnson or Bayley (Bailey). The first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary was published in 1755. Nathan Bailey first published his in 1736. These would have been the most commonly used dictionaries in the 1780's.…