Daniel Shays
Type your answer here... Led an armed uprising of about 1200 farmers on a federal arsenal?
Daniel Shays led a rebellion against high taxes that forced farmers into debt.
Daniel shays the uprising was also known as the shays rebellion
1786-87, Daniel Shays, a former captain in the American Revolution. After several bloodless success Shays and his 'army' were routed by Gen. William Shepherd while attacking the federal arsenal in Springfield. Shays fled to Vermont. Later he and other leaders of the rebellion were pardoned by Governor John Hancock.
The federal arsenal (storage place for weapons) was the Springfield Armory located in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Brown's goal was to obtain weapons from the arsenal in order to arm slaves and cause a slave uprising in Virginia
He had hoped to steal enough weapons to arm a slave uprising in Virginia
He raided Harper's Ferry for weaponry from the Federal arsenal there, intending to start a major slave uprising.
to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising
He had hoped to steal enough weapons to arm a slave uprising in Virginia
He intended to take guns from the arsenal and give them to slaves so that those slaves could start a rebellion and become free.
Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) was a small town, where a Federal Arsenal was located. Brown became convinced that if he started an uprising among slaves by providing weapons and strategy, the revolt would spread across the entire south. Thus, by raiding the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, he, his sons, and men could seize weapons and provide them to slaves, during what he envisioned as a revolt.