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…
During the years 1786 and 1787 a series of protests erupted from american farmers against the Government named Shays Rebellion. The farmers were angry at state and local taxes where they developed debts. This event, although not a big threat, raised concern over the Articles of Confederation, and later be brought up with the establishment of the constitution. Despite the ease of stopping Daniel Shay and his followers, the rebellion questioned both the state and national government power. This issue would remain a prominent issue when the framers were crafting the constitution. The Founding Fathers feared that giving states too much power would cause them to disregard the federal government; and if the feds had too much power, it would be seen as tyranny. The last thing they wanted was to be like Great Britain, ruled under an oppressive king. Therefore, the framers…
In Eric Foner, “Founding a Nation, 1783-1791,” Foner depicts the chain of events that occur that led to the formation of a stronger central government and the creation of the US Constitution in 1787. Shay’s Rebellion brought out the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the predecessor to the US Constitution, which gave the federal government very limited powers when I came to raising funds to provide for the general defense of the states. Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government did not have the ability to raise funds through taxation to fund a national army, instead, it relied upon voluntary contributions from the states. Shay’s Rebellion came about when the state of Massachusetts in 1786 decided to raise taxes in order to pay its state debts, this caused many farmers,…
Shay's Rebellion is more than a simple act of civil disobedience of citizens against their government. There were a lot of key causes and factors to Shay's Rebellion. All of theses factors and problems added up cause an uproar. The Rebellion in itself was not that big of a rebellion, however it did create a very big impact on the leaders of the nation. The Rebellion occurred in many places all over the new colonies, but most of the effect of the Rebellion took place at Massachusetts.…
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.…
General George Washington had nearly 3 years of retirement by 1776 and expected he had been removed from the public for good. However, when news came about of a rebellion in Massachusetts, Washington became worried. Desperate for news on the event, he depended largely on information from old friends such as General Henry Knox and General Benjamin Lincoln. “But for God's sake tell me what is the cause of all these commotions: do they proceed from licentiousness, British-influence disseminated by the stories, or real grievances which admit of redress? If the latter, why were they delayed 'till the public mind had become so much agitated? If the former, why are not the powers of Government tried at once?” (Challenge to Authority: Daniel Shays'…
“Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist except in the single instance of Shays’ rebellion?” Shays Rebellion was a period of time where farmers stole arms from the government and forcefully took over large areas of land. They rebelled because they were being put in jail for being unable to pay off their taxes. Although many will argue that Shays and his followers were freedom fighters, nevertheless they were irresponsible rebels because they were led under false ideas, many saw them as violent criminals, and they were put in this situation by fault of their own.…
I think that Shays was wrong. I think that the people were wanting to take over themselves and to me, that is wrong. The rebellion was started because it was about the people wanting to live, say and do what they wanted to. Under the national government, they did not have these choices at the time. The rebellion was intended to give them these things that they wanted.…
George Washington was the first President of the United States, and when he took office, America had some big problems to deal with. One was making sure the government was strong enough to keep the states working together. The other big issue was the Whiskey Rebellion, when people got mad about a tax on whiskey and started fighting against the government. Washington's team worked hard to solve these problems. They helped make a new set of rules called the Constitution to make the government stronger.…
The labor industry was also in a chaotic situation. Few jobs were available for grab. What`s more, wages attached to such were not enough to get by on. Technology was not advanced and manufacturing did not take…
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The revolution was a result in many consequences for a wide range of people. With the Revolution, this brought violence, economic disadvantages, loss of properties and farms. Many acts of violence, protesting, deaths, and imprisonment. All this becoming known to be the Shays’ Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, and the Gabriel’s Rebellion. Shays rebellion started out with a load of debt, the people and mostly farmers struggled tremendously with paying their dues.…
Many people think rebellions are a bad thing. Those people probably do not know that there were three rebellions that would change America for the better. The three rebellions happened in three key states/colonies. Shays’ Rebellion was in Massachusetts, the Whiskey Rebellion was in Pennsylvania and Bacon’ Rebellion was in the colony of Virginia. The most important rebellion was Shays’ Rebellion because it gave this country the need for a stronger central government.…
The elite opted to prevent rebellions which voiced the opinions of disregarded members of society such as women, slaves, indentured servants, and men who didn 't own land, by intervening and taking them into their own hands because they wanted to preserve their power. In 1780, Shay 's rebellion, led by Daniel Shay, a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, allowed farmers who were unable to pay their mortgage, to speak out. Creating chaos amongst the peaceful streets of Springfield, armed farmers were stopped by state militia. Shay 's rebellion led way to the Philadelphia Convention in which fifty-five men representing twelve states congregated on 1787, in proposal of drafting a new constitution. Through the occurrence of the American Revolution, they were aware of the power that their people were able to execute and wanted to stabilize the government by creating a new Constitution. Members included James Madison, Robert Morris, and Alexander Hamilton. Delegates met in secret, excluding the response of the people.…
In the eighteenth century, settlers resorted to violent protest to express their disagreements. Before the occurrence of the violent protests, the country was still recovering from the aftermath of the French and Indian War. The country was subject to the payment of debt from Britain who declared that the colonies were in protection of Britain during the war, also known as parliamentary sovereignty. Along with the debt, there were tensions with the natives in the land due to the decreasing space in proportion to the British expansion of territory. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 was also signed, giving French control over Canada to Britain. While there were still disputes over how government revenue should be raised, the occurrence of these events…