MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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Political leaders organized the Continental Congress to debate independence.
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Rebellious Massachusetts farmers received military help from neighboring states.
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Rebellious Massachusetts farmers organized militias to support the central government.
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Political leaders supported the Convention in Philadelphia to debate a new government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shays’ Rebellion accelerated calls to reform the Articles, eventually resulting in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. The Convention elected Washington as its president and ultimately produced the Constitution of the United States.
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: -The uprising was one of the major influences in the calling of a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The tax protest demonstrated that the federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, couldn’t effectively put down an internal rebellion.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.