MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Daniel Shay
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James Shay
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, Daniel Shays of Massachusetts, a former captain in the Continental army.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -On this day in 1786, a popular uprising began in Massachusetts. Shays’ Rebellion was one of several critical events that led to the calling of a Constitutional Convention the following year in Philadelphia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although he was never tried, Daniel Shays was pardoned by Massachusetts in 1788. He never returned from exile, however, living first in Vermont and then in Scottsburg in western New York, where he finally secured a pension as a Revolutionary soldier and died in 1825.