What was Shay's Rebellion and what role did that play in the push for changing the Articles of confederation?

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Answer 1

Shays' Rebellion, the post-Revolutionary clash between New England farmers and merchants that tested the precarious institutions of the new republic, threatened to plunge the "disunited states" into a civil war. The rebellion arose in Massachusetts in 1786, spread to other states, and culminated in an abortive attack on a federal arsenal. It wound down in 1787 with the election of a more popular governor, an economic upswing, and the creation of the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia.

Shays' Rebellion "had a great influence on public opinion," as Samuel Eliot Morison notes; it was the fiercest outbreak of discontent in the early republic, and public feeling ran high on both sides. After the rebellion was defeated, the trial of the insurgents in 1787 was closely watched and hotly debated.

* For a long time, traditional historians were content to portray the rebels as wrongheaded villains in an unfolding drama of patriotism.
* Recent historians have revolutionized our understanding of early American family and community life, and improved our comprehension of post-Revolutionary political and social struggles.
* To follow Shays' Rebellion is to witness an escalating crisis in which the men who fought or financed the American Revolution were obliged to reconsider that revolution and its principles only ten years later.

Answer 2

Shay's rebellion was an uprising by farmers in Mass. due to heavy taxes and foreclosures on their farms. Alot of them were veterans of the Revolutionary War and although promised pay, never recieved any. As their farms were repossessed they marched and caused havoc. The Government was almoast helpless to stop the uprising. This help change the Article of Confederation because it opened up everyone's eyes to see that a stronger Central Government that could put down Rebellions was important