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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike many other state legislatures in the 1780s, the Massachusetts government didn’t respond to the economic crisis by passing pro-debtor laws (like forgiving debt and printing more paper money). As a result local sheriffs seized many farms and some farmers who couldn’t pay their debts were put in prison.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Rebellion was quickly defeated, but people realized that the government had to change. The Articles of Confederation were scrapped, and the states’ delegates convened the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to draft a new constitution, with George Washington coaxed out of retirement to help, and end up as President.