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Shays led a group of farmers in an aborted revolt known as Shays' Rebellion. Angry over foreclosures caused largely by the government's failure under the Articles of Confederation to pay wages owed to Revolutionary War soldiers, farmers attempted to raid a federal arsenal but were turned back by a private army (hired because Congress hadn't paid the current national army at the time either and was terrified of the risk that they too would revolt). Though Shays didn't immediately succeed, his rebellion did create the catalyst needed to bring delegates to Philadelphia for what would become known as the Constitutional Convention.

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