What started Shay's rebellion?

Answer 1

Shay's Rebellion grew out of the fiscal practices of the state of Massachusetts. Following the war, a former Continental Army soldier, Daniel Shays, led a revolt against what he and other farmers believed was economic tyranny. The post war depression had hit farmers particularly hard, and many lost their farms to debt. The rebellion attempted to over- throw the state government, stopping taxation and foreclosures, but was put down.

Answer 2

Unrest among Mass farmers' taxes.

Farmers, including Daniel Shays who was the leader of this revolt, were unhappy with how the state dealt with them; there were too many taxes the farmers were unable to pay and the government thus seized their land.

Answer 3

Shay's Rebellion was caused by a tax on the making of whiskey. Many farmers of western Pennsylvania would make whiskey from excess corn; Congress needed money and thought that taxing this would bring in more income. The farmers were not happy, and many banded together to stop the courts from seizing their land. (Land was being seized by the court to make up for the farmers' debts from taxing.) President Washington personally led an army to come stop the rebellion. Shay's Rebellion was one of the first challenges for the new American government.