Daniel Shays : A Founding Father

citizens heavily. The only problem with this though, was that many farmers in western Massachusetts were war veterans, so they had a difficult time paying. The legislature refused to pass laws to help the farmers, and thus a leader was born; Daniel Shay. Daniel Shay led protests and attacks. Although his rebellion was not a success, he is regarded as a hero in many eyes.

Background The exact date of when Daniel Shays was born is ¬unknown, though it is recorded that he was born in 1747 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He was the second child born to Patrick Shays and Margaret Dempsey Shays, both of which were of Irish decent and immigrated to Massachusetts in the 1730s.1 Shays and his siblings were raised in humble circumstances, growing up in a poor household and being neglected of an education.2 As a young man, he sold his labor and began working on farms, and at a

The Founding Fathers of the Articles of Confederation consisted of 13 separate States. They were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The articles were drafted on November 15, 1777 and were later revised on March 1, 1781. During this time the states ran into a large number of problems, one being it was up to the states to enforce taxes on the public and only a small portion

The founding fathers want to replace the Articles of Confederation by establishing a stronger central government to regulate under the same jurisdiction to control commerce and policies among the United States. One of the issues that occurred was the lack of protection during the Shays Rebellion in 1786. A group of poor farmers led by Daniel Shays riot against the state government’s debt and tax policies in Massachusetts. They seek a national government that limits state government authority to tax

Major Challenges of the Constitution and the Founding Class Many factors all played a role as to why the Constitution in our modern days today are affecting we the people. Anywhere from the balance of power of that to the role of the federal/state government. We see the flaws and how much of an impact it has brought upon us as Americans because of what our Founding Fathers had done for us in the past. Our government’s main activity was to control the foreign policy and conclude treaties. But, of

found independence from Great Britain, its founding fathers realize from their historical experiences that a document of law needed to be crafted and established to preserve its new found independence, while maintaining order. However, the first document crafted by the founding fathers, the Articles of Confederation, did preserve the country new found independence but it did not maintain order. The Articles of Confederation described by many founding fathers to be a document that was crafted to satisfy

the National Socialist Party, and was pushed to its limit at the White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, yet the persistence of this right proves how controversy succumbs to the freedom of expression. Although it may seem as though the founding fathers predicted the future of America with the 1st amendment, they were actually responding to the oppressions they faced at the hands of the British as well as conflicts within the nation’s own borders. According to the Government and Constitution

The Founding Fathers were motivated by a variety of factors to write a new Constitution, including reaction towards the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, group attempts to establish a new national government and the desire to limit "democracy". The Constitutional Convention was the result of a reaction against the weakness of the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention was held to deal with the problems under the Articles of Confederation as well as to seek a solution to

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing” (Jefferson). Thomas Jefferson wrote these words in a letter to James Madison after hearing about Shay’s Rebellion while he was a foreign diplomat in Paris. After the rebellion happened, the “Shaysites” as they were called, were labeled as traitors to their country and the democratic form of government. But were they really? Many of the men fighting in the rebellion felt that they were being oppressed just as they had been under

In late eighteenth-century America, the ideal form of government was widely contested. When the American colonies were under British rule, they were subject to the almost-tyrannical British government, in which they were not fully represented. After the colonies achieved independence, two main political factions emerged: the Republicans and the Federalists. The Republicans, scarred by the overbearing British government, advocated for a weak federal government with individual state governments, which