Shay's Rebellion
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A militia raised as a private army defeated a Shaysite (rebel) attempt to seize the federal Springfield Armory in late January 1787, killing four and wounding 20. The main Shaysite force was scattered on February 4, 1787, after a surprise attack on their camp in Petersham, Massachusetts.
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James Bowdoin organized a military force to confront the rebels. (voters turned against him in the next election)
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Protesters, including many war veterans, shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection
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Shay's Rebellion took place in central and western Massachusetts.
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Shays and some of the other leaders escaped north into New Hampshire and Vermont
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Shays' Rebellion forced Washington and other Americans to rethink the Confederation system and the assumptions behind it.The events in Massachusetts fueled the desire among many political leaders to curb the excesses occurring in individual states.
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Shays's Rebellion illustrated two things: The national government under the Articles of Confederation was powerless to raise money to pay back the debt or pay back the soldiers because each law had to be approved by every single state. Just one state's saying no meant that a bill was defeated. Out of all this came a general agreement that a stronger federal government was needed. Later in 1787, the Constitution became a reality
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Started in 1786, lead by Daniel shays. (he was a former captain in the Continental Army)
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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 the state's debt problems.
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The rebels had planned their assault for January 25, but Luke Day changed this at the last minute, sending Shays a message indicating he would not be ready to attack until the 26th.[25] Day's message was intercepted by Shepard's men, so the militia of Shays and Parsons, some 1,500 men, approached the armory on the 25th not knowing they would have no support from the west.
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The rebels were dispersed in January 1787 with over 1,000 arrested. Bowdoin declared that Americans would descend into "a state of anarchy, confusion, and slavery" unless the rule of the law was upheld.
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Ultimately, however, the uprising was the climax of a series of events of the 1780s that convinced a powerful group of Americans that the national government needed to be stronger so that it could create uniform economic policies and protect property owners from infringements on their rights by local majorities.
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What caused Shays to take on the situation as a revolutionary cause was that on September 19, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts indicted eleven leaders of the rebellion as "disorderly, riotous, and seditious persons." Incensed by the indictment, Shays organized seven hundred armed farmers, most of them war veterans, and led them to Springfield
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Although it never seriously threatened the stability of the United States, Shays' Rebellion greatly alarmed politicians throughout the nation.
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Americans resisted high taxes and organized meetings to create protests.
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On the night of February 3-4, he led his militia on a forced march to Petersham through a bitter snowstorm. Arriving early in the morning, they surprised the rebel camp so thoroughly that they scattered "without time to call in their out parties or even their guards
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After returning from the war, Daniel Shays was alarmed to discover that many of his fellow veterans and farmers were in the same financial situation as he.
Notes and US History Textbook.
Daniel Shays went to court; he was said to be executed, but he fought with the court saying that they were telling the people to fight a decade ago and that he is finally fighting. he was not sent to execution.
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The farmers were in debt and struck by economic depression from the American revolution.
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The group name was known as the "Shaysites" and they were crushed by the army organized by the state.
