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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.
Richards, Leonard L. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Shattuck, Gary, Artful and Designing Men: The Trials of Job Shattuck and the Regulation of 1786-1787. Tate Publishing, 2013. Szatmary, David, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. University of ...
Luke Day Jr. (July 21, 1743 – June 1, 1801) was an American military officer, revolutionary, and farmer, most familiar for his leadership role in Shays' Rebellion, for which he was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death, before being pardoned by Governor John Hancock. [1]
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 ...
From the violent Shays Rebellion to the Jan. 6 insurrection, American democracy has been tested several times. | Opinion
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, August 29, 1786 – February 3, 1787, Western Massachusetts; 1786 – Paper Money Riot, September 20, Exeter, New Hampshire; 1788 – Doctors Mob Riot, New York City; 1791–1794 – Whiskey Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania (anti-excise tax on whiskey)
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
Shays' Rebellion Eli Parsons (January 29, 1748, Springfield – 26 or 30 September 1830, Oswego ) [ 1 ] was a leading contributor to Shays' Rebellion in the developing climate of revolutionary America .