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This event occurred in Massachusetts, in the Springfield area.

Farmers in western Massachusetts resented the fact that the state's tax laws favored trade at the expense of farming. The state legislature was composed mostly of merchants from Boston and other shipping towns and cities. In 1786, farmers assembled in conventions and demanded that their property tax be lowered. To make up for the loss of revenue, they called for the abolition of aristocratic branches of the government in Boston. A Revolutionary War veteran named Daniel Shays led about 2,000 armed men against the Springfield arsenal. The rebellion collapsed but the problems continued. Shays and his followers believed they were simply carrying on the sprit of the Revolution.
The rebellion started on August 29, 1786 it occured in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.

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