MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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government
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middle class
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poor farmers
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Gentry
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shays’s Rebellion and other acts of violence deeply shocked Americans and spread fear the United States was on the verge of anarchy. Motivated by this fear more and more Americans turned to the idea of a stronger central government.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Daniel Shays, (born c. 1747, Hopkinton, Massachusetts? [U.S.]-died September 29, 1825, Sparta, New York), American officer (1775–80) in the American Revolution and a leader of Shays’s Rebellion (1786–87), an uprising in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.