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Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades.
Shays' Rebellion (WIA) Job Shattuck (February 11, 1736 – January 13, 1819) was an American military officer and landowner who served during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War .
From the violent Shays Rebellion to the Jan. 6 insurrection, American democracy has been tested several times. | Opinion
Engraving – there are no portraits – depicting Daniel Shays (left) and Job Shattuck of Shays' Rebellion. In July 1786, a diverse group of Western Massachusetts gentlemen, farmers, and war veterans – often characterized as " yeoman farmers" by the Massachusetts and Federal governments, convened in Southampton, Massachusetts , to write-up a ...
These taxes sparked anger among the populace, particularly in rural areas, and in Massachusetts led to an armed uprising known as Shays' Rebellion. As both Congress and the government of Massachusetts proved unable to suppress the rebellion, former Secretary of War Benjamin Lincoln raised a private army which put an end to the insurgency. [36]
Due to the large debts of Massachusetts, incurred from the Revolutionary War, Bowdoin ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. During his two years in office, the combination of poor economic conditions and his harsh fiscal policy laid down by his government led to the uprising known as Shays' Rebellion. Bowdoin personally funded militia ...
One of the events was Shays’ Rebellion, or "On the Shais Affair in Maschusets" as noted in the text. [25] Cycles of depression and indulgence followed the Revolutionary War, only to be exacerbated by Massachusetts’ regulation of money and debt while British creditors called in their debts from the war.
Daniel Shays (August 1747 – September 29, 1825) was an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies that took place in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787. The actual role played by Shays in the rebellion is disputed by ...