MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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That the U.S. needed to create a strong central government
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That occasional rebellions were good for a country
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That people were making too big of a deal about the rebellion
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Shays Rebellion? What is that?
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Detailed explanation-1: -God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion… What country before, ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States and the main writer of the Declaration of Independence. During Shays’ Rebellion he had a different reaction than George Washington. Where Washington reacted with fear and a call for a more centralized government, Jefferson almost embraced the rebellion.
Detailed explanation-4: -The words “I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing” are found in a letter he wrote to a friend in early 1788 while he was the US Ambassador to France. Jefferson wasn’t referring to anything happening in Paris-he was talking about Massachusetts, and the event now known as ‘Shays’ Rebellion’.