USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shays’ Rebellion was a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts that began in 1786 and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shays advanced, expecting reinforcements that never came. Governor James Bowdoin offered a pardon to those insurgents who would lay down their arms. When Shays refused to halt, Shepherd opened fire with small arms and artillery. The cannon fire routed Shays’ men, leaving twenty wounded and four dead.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first, named after its nominal leader, Daniel Shays, erupted in western Massachusetts in the winter of 1786 and continued into the early months of 1787. The Whiskey Rebellion occurred in western Pennsylvania in 1794 and ended that same year.