Shay’s Rebellion was the revolt of Western Massachusetts farmers against their state legislature because they felt they were being unequally represented. The intention of this paper is to analyze the problems that led to Shays’ Rebellion and to describe the casual relationship it had with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Being able to help protect and support their personal lifestyles‚ which included their homes farms‚ and families was why Daniel Shays and other Western Massachusetts
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Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays‚ a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. The rebellion started on August 29‚ 1786. It was precipitated by several factors: financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression‚ a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency‚ and fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve
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Book Review By Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx HIS 1111 The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. By Thomas P. Slaughter. (New York: Oxford University Press‚ l986‚ 291 pp.) In October of 1794‚ in response to a popular uprising against the federal government‚ President Washington sent an army of nearly 13‚000 men across the Allegheny Mountains into the frontier regions of Western Pennsylvania. This event marked the greatest internal crisis of Washington’s administration and was
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Surrounding the Whiskey Rebellion For hundreds of years‚ there have been many reasons for citizens to feel like they were being taken advantage of by their government. The biggest source of these exploited feelings seems to be taxes. Now‚ when citizens feel like they are taken advantage of‚ there seems to be 2 ways that they deal with it: they accept it and pay their taxes‚ or they get angry until the whispers of rebellion are heard ‘round the country. A great example of a rebellion caused by taxes
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Nation Spring 2013 Critical Book Review The Whiskey Rebellion by Thomas Slaughter Slaughter is a very interesting author who does not write like many of his peers on historic topics. Throughout the whole book‚ Slaughter does not give his own opinions on what happened during the Whiskey Rebellion‚ but rather‚ he gives non biased facts to present both arguments through primary and secondary sources. His book describes the actions that led up to the rebellion in western Pennsylvania in 1794 and how certain
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The rebellion was led by a man named Daniel Shay and lasted over six months. The goal of the rebellion was to prevent the trial and imprisonment of the debt-ridden farmers. After a few protests following the tax collections‚ the governor of Massachusetts‚ named James Bowdoin‚ called the militia to report the peoples’ unwillingness to pay and follow the law. The critical point of the rebellion was Shays’ march on the government arsenal at Springfield in January 1787. The only means of standing off
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and sit down. I took out my notebook and we started.I asked‚”How did Shays’ Rebellion end?” He responds‚”It ended with a donation.The donation was mostly from Boston merchants.The money was raised for an army to fight against my dad army.Sadly the winter was hard on his armyies.The army was soon sentenced to death when they found them‚ but they didn’t kill them.” When I finish writing that down I ask‚“What cause Shays’ Rebellion?” He told me‚”The Article of Confederation made America weak and unstable
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The book‚ Shays’ Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection‚ is a historical account that provides an interesting perspective on the accounts of many struggling men‚ earning wages in the agricultural force‚ who were driven to form a rebellion against the government and the court system‚ because of a crisis of debt and credit that struck after the Revolutionary War in the years from1786 to 1787. The text as a whole provides a good analysis on the subject at hand and achieves its goal to the
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I am sure many have heard about historical changes such as “Jay’s Treaty”‚ “The Whiskey Rebellion”‚ and “Pinckney’s Treaty”. They are taught to children as young as Eight years old. These three were major parts in Domestic Politics in the 18th century. In 1793‚ the British government violated international law by ordering naval commanders to begin seizing any American ship that carried French goods or was sailing for a French port. By 1794‚ several Hundred American ships were confiscated. Choices
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Shays’ Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. Although farmers took up arms in states from New Hampshire to South Carolina‚ the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts‚ where bad harvests‚ economic depression‚ and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader‚ Daniel Shays of Massachusetts‚ a former
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