Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. The fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787.

Shays’s Rebellion exposed the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation and led many—including George Washington—to call for strengthening the federal government in order to put down future uprisings.

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Shays’s Rebellion, (August 1786–February 1787), uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes.

The uprising was one of the major influences in the calling of a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The tax protest demonstrated that the federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, couldn’t effectively put down an internal rebellion.

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What caused Shay’s Rebellion? The government paid the soldiers who fought in the revolutionary war with worthless money. The soldiers were farmers who fell in debt and sent to Debtors Prison.

Shay’s Rebellion brought a massive change to the government. It replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. Then rebellion showed that the Articles were too weak and gave too much power to the individual colonies.

Shay’s rebellion exposed the weaknesses of the articles of confederation by exposing that the government, Congress, could not form a military or draft because the federal government did not have money due to the fact that they did not have the ability to enforce taxes upon the citizens.

What were the causes and consequences of Shays’ Rebellion? Farmers were unable to pay the debts and taxes on their farms which were being taken away from congress. An effect was that Government had to make changes to the constitution. Some poor farmers were put in jail because of this.

Although plans for a Constitutional Convention were already under way, the uprising in Massachusetts led to further calls for a stronger national government and influenced the ensuing debate in Philadelphia that led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution in the summer of 1787.

Shays’ Rebellion was a series of armed protests staged in 1786 by farmers in western Massachusetts against repressive debt and property tax collection practices. The farmers were aggrieved by excessive Massachusetts property taxes and penalties ranging from the foreclosure of their farms to lengthy prison terms.

The causes of the revolt, which became known as Shays Rebellion was money – or the lack of money. The American Revolutionary War had resulted in massive War Debts. The Continental Congress and state governments imposed a Poll tax to pay for the Revolutionary War debts.

How did Shays’ Rebellion lead to the Constitutional Convention? Since the National Government was helpless during the rebellion they didn’t have the power to do anything , it showed that it was too weak and needed to change. This led to the Constitutional Convention.

What made the government’s response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 so different from its response to Shays’s Rebellion in 1787? The federal government used the army to quash Shays’s Rebellion. The federal government used the army to quash the Whiskey Rebellion. The leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion were executed.

They both are about groups of people standing up. But the one about whiskey has to do with one law and shays was just fed up with the leaders in Massachusetts. Both groups were protesting about taxes and were farmers. And the other is about having to pay taxes for whiskey, but they refused to pay taxes for the whiskey.

Washington himself rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency, with 13,000 militiamen provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania….

By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the United States militia westward to stop the rebels.