MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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Question
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They did not want to lose their farms
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They didn’t want to rewrite the constitution
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They wanted to get England to take control of North America again
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NO answer choices are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -The farmers in question-led by the very revolutionaries who had fought against such taxes in the American war for independence-were rebelling against taxes imposed by the state government of Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Whiskey Rebellion. In 1794, farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis. In 1791, Congress approved a new, federal tax on spirits and the stills that produced them.
Detailed explanation-3: -A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787, Shays’ Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. Although Massachusetts was the focal point of the crisis, other states experienced similar economic hardships.
Detailed explanation-4: -The rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers-turned farmers who opposed state economic policies causing poverty and property foreclosures. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a farmer and former soldier who fought at Bunker Hill and was one of several leaders of the insurrection.