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What causes Shays's Rebellion?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 10/23/2021

The money shortage from the revolutionary war was particularly hard on farmers who could not earn enough to pay their debts and taxes. In Massachusetts, judges ordered farmers to sell their land and livestock to pay off their debts. Led by Daniel Shays, a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Massachusetts farmers rebelled. In 1786, Shays and his followers closed down courthouses to keep judges from taking their farms. Then they marched on the national arsenal at Springfield to seize the weapons stored there. Having disbanded the Continental army, Congress was unable to stop them

Farmers feared the loss of their crops, livestock, and farms to foreclosure.

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Geoffrey Herzog

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3y ago

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