Shays' Rebellion

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It was because at the time the event was terrible, but something good came from it in the end. The Articles of Confederation were revised.

Not really, they were going to write it anyway. Most governments, or at least the civilized one's anyway, require some sort of operative document.

Definition of shays rebellion?

Farmers in the western areas Massachusetts resented the fact tat the state's tax laws, enacted by the merchants of Boston and other seaports, favored trade at the expense of agriculture. In other words, the farmers were paying taxes which helped the ship and commerce community of Massachusetts. The farmers demanded abolition of aristocratic branches of the government in Boston.

It pointed out the weakness of the Articles of Confederation. The government was unable to help either Shays or the government of Mass. 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. Thomas Jefferson, then minister to France, agreed with them. "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing," he wrote to a friend. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Washington did not agree with Jefferson. He welcomed the failure of Shays's Rebellion and he compared it to his having to use force to prevent a military coup by a group of army officers under his command. He believed citizens could not take up arms whenever they felt something was not done correctly or they had a grievance.

Shay's Rebellion was hard to stop because of the fact that the Articles of Confederation were the guidelines at the time. Under the Articles of Confederation, the government did not have the power to establish an army, hence there was no way army to stop Shay's Rebellion. Instead, the rebellion was stopped by rick folk who paid to form an army.

Taxes have gone through the roof and workers are having trouble paying off their taxes. The taxes affect these workers by taking land and putting others in debt. To make sure our rights are available, we shall join Shay`s rebellion and make sure our rights and needs are met..

It would all depend on why the person was being punished. The Romans liked to make the punishment fit the crime as much as possible. If a person were being punished for arson, he/she would be burnt alive, for murder or repeated theft, one could be crucified, if a foreigner or slave, if a citizen it was the arena. Public executions added as a warning to anyone else contemplating a crime. Strangulation was a very common death sentence. If one were found guilty of something like treason, he would be exiled and his property confiscated. Petty theft was punished by a fine and restitution. A slave could be punished by a whipping, however this was only in extreme cases, as a master who abused his slaves lost social status in the eyes of his peers. A slave was generally punished by being denied food for a day or two, or being denied other privileges.

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an armed uprising in western Massachusetts. the farmers and militia were concerned with financial issues. this is the time period when the constitution was being ratified for the bill of rights. the people were worried about the government's control. especially financially.

They obviously thought so. They were veterans of a war against unfair taxation by the British and now felt they were being over taxed by the new government. However, they rebelled for far less taxation then most of America has today. Nobody wants to pay taxes, but most people want the benefits of government to continue.

Haiti. The only successful rebellion in North America. It ended up in a massive slaughter of the offenders.

P.S: The slaves from Haiti endured the worst than the slaves in America could ever imagine.

The government couldn't control the rebellion because there was no unity. One state needed help but under the Articles of Confederation, none of the other states had any desire or incentive to help put down the rebellion. The rebellion showed that the states needed more loyalty to one another and a stronger connection.

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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 governor of Massachusetts asked for help from the national government but the government under the Articles was unable to act. The rebellion eventually collapsed but the problems continued. Shays and his followers believed they were simply carrying on the sprit of the Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, then minister to France, agreed with them. "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing," he wrote to a friend. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Washington did not agree with Jefferson. He welcomed the failure of Shays's Rebellion and he compared it to his having to use force to prevent a military coup by a group of army officers under his command. He believed citizens could not take up arms whenever they felt something was not done correctly or they had a grievance.

Shays and the government of Massachusetts agreed to a meeting and an attempt to end the stalemate. The governor sent the state militia to the armory and Shays's agree to march in with his "troops." The state militia fired and four of Shays's men were killed. The remainder were arrested and tried and several of he rebels were fined and imprisoned, but some received the death penalty. A general amnesty was granted in 1788. Most of the men, by then, had been released or had their death sentences commuted. Two men were hanged on 6 December 1787. Shays was pardoned and he eventually moved to New York where he died in 1825.

Shay's rebellion only involved the United States.

major factor in writing the new constitution

Shay's rebellion is remembered today because it shocked Congress into calling a Constitutional Convention and also showed how well the Articles of Confederation worked.

Shays Rebellion was an armed rebellion that occurred in Massachusetts starting in 1786, motivated partially by post-war financial difficulties and comprised mainly of Revolutionary War veterans. This rebellion showed that the government as created by the Articles of Confederation was too weak and ineffective to deal with the difficulties that the rebellion was motivated by--as well as the rebellion itself.

Shay's rebellion accomplish to be given a bill of rights to protect their induvidual freedoms.

Basically, the angry farmers who were rebelling posed a threat to all citizens. This raised more awareness to their debt situations. Wikipedia puts it best,

"Ultimately, the uprising was the climax of a series of events of the 1780s that convinced a powerful group of Americans that the national government needed to be stronger so that it could create uniform economic policies and protect property owners from infringements on their rights by local majorities."

People started to question whether state sovereignty was the best form of government for the country.

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.