Daniel Shay
1786-1787
1786-1787
In Western Massachusetts.
white people
Because of high taxes, they faced the loss of their farms to foreclosure.
Daniel Shays is the person who led a rebellion of desperate farmers in Massachusetts. It lasted from August of 1786 to June of 1787, and was known as Shays' Rebellion.
What was unfair about the whiskey rebellion was that the western farmers from Pennsylvania were taxed on whiskey but the other farmers were not!
Shay's Rebillion
Farmers in western Pennsylvania started it.
whiskey rebellion
whiskey rebellion
Shay's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Central/Western Massachusetts that started on August 29, 1786. The financial difficulties of the depression, lack of currency, and harsh government policies led to the start of the rebellion.