USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Historically, scholars have argued that the four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) who protested against economic and civil rights injustices by the Massachusetts Government were led by American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Daniel Shays quickly rose among the ranks of the dissidents, having participated in the protest at Northampton courthouse in late August. Shays’ followers called themselves “Regulators, ” in reference to a reform movement in North Carolina that occurred two decades earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Daniel Shays (August 1747 – September 29, 1825) was an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays’ Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786–1787.