Shays Rebellion DBQ

One of the major rebellions that marked significant changes in America during the late 1700s is Shay’s Rebellion. This is a rebellion that involved the local farmers forming series of protests against the government. The rebellion is an American crisis relating to gun ownership, the civic obligation, because it was showed a significantly violent resistance to get involved in law enforcement. The rebellion resulted in increasing taxation on most of their practices, which made them operate under losses (Finkelman 267). Although they were finally quelled by government forces, people can see supports towards the rebels from some militia

A progression of tax revolts by Massachusetts ranchers against the Massachusetts law making body in 1786-1787. Shays' Rebellion, the post-Revolutionary conflict between New England ranchers and traders that tried the unsafe organizations of the new republic, debilitated to dive the divided states into a common war. The Rebellion emerged in Massachusetts in 1786, spread to different states, and finished in a failed assault on a government munitions stockpile. It slowed down in 1787 with the decision of a more well known representative, a financial rise, and the formation of the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia.

Likewise to the Regulator Movement, Shay’s Rebellion occurred because of the property taken away from the poor farmers. Shay’s Rebellion of Massachusetts was caused from post war recession, lack of payment of army stipends, failure to receive payment from bonds, and farmers going into debt, which led to property being taken away from the yeomen farmers; this rebellion was significant in the terms of the realization of a stronger national government and the call for the Annapolis Convention. The elitist has little idea on what to do with the new found freedom. Currency was not yet established. Naturally a recession occurred. Trade came to a standstill. Nothing was coming in nor out. Furthermore, Shay’s Rebellion happened due to lack of

Shays’ Rebellion occurred because the lower class backcountry farmers felt oppressed by the more wealthy gentry farmers that had control of the state governments. The gentry held control because of the ability to attend the governmental meetings, as the gentry lived were closer to the cities where the meetings that took place and also had servants to do the work on the farms for the wealthy gentry class. This control of government allowed for the gentry to create new laws and bills in order to assist the agendas of the upper class, while the lower class, who could not attend, had no say and could not vote otherwise. These previously mentioned laws and bills often resulted in the repossession of land owned by poor farmers who could not pay off their own debts.This oppression of by the upper class led Daniel Shay to gather a militia of his own to march on the United States Army arsenal in Massachusetts. While Daniel Shays’ movement itself was not successful, it led to rapid change because it spawned the Annapolis Convention and ultimately led to the revision of the Articles of Confederation, which resulted in the Constitution in place during the present

The video that I watched was about Shay’s Rebellion that happened on January 25 1787.Washinton reigned on November 2, 1783. That same year he rode to New Jersey to sign the Peace Treaty. During the 1780’s was when the American Revolution ended and was when the most critical period happened. Thousands of people died, a lot of farmers lost their crops.

The French Revolution took place during 1789 and 1799 in France. King Louis XIV needed money and passed an unfair tax. There were three Estates; the first; the clergy, the second; the nobles and the third; everyone else. The king did not seek any advice when putting the tax in place which caused a lot of unrest in the third estate. This was one incident that lead up to the French Revolution. The French Revolution was unsuccessful because it did not achieve freedom for the French people and it was bloody.

The emerging United States was almost destroyed by Shays’ rebellion because when civilians rebelled, the nation had no centralized government to control such an outbreak of rebellion, and if this behavior continued, or more outbreaks occurred, the country would be in turmoil (Moschella, “Shay’s Rebellion”).

The final push that resulted in Congress to create an efficient standing army was Shay 's Rebellion, which lasted from 1786 to 1787. Farmers, heavily burdened by taxes and debts, were led by Daniel Shays, a former officer under George Washington, to raid an American armory at Springfield, Massachusetts. With American army stationed at West Point, the armory was guarded by a mere padlock. Congress was forced to rally a militia to end the riots.

Across the United States, city and county governments seek to gain revenue through the illegitimate jailing of indigent defendants who cannot afford to pay the large and cumbersome fines that accompany committing (seemingly petty) crimes— such as missing court dates, a requirement for classes such as anger management, the list goes on. Indeed, the practice of debtor’s prison has long been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court within the United States, yet a contemporary form of debtor’s prison has begun to take form which targets vulnerable populations. When an individual commits a crime, they are to be justly punished. If this punishment consists of a fine, that fine is expected to be paid accordingly; if the fined individual simply does not have the time or money to pay these steep fines, however, they are sent to jail indefinitely. This rise of financial burden imposed upon the liberty of low income citizens through the fining, issuing of fees, and jail time sanctioned by the criminal justice system has resulted in new, illegitimate, and ostensibly unconstitutional forms of debtor’s prisons that permeate contemporary U.S. society. Jeopardizing the liberty of vulnerable populations, based upon material inequality and extraction of necessary resources, only does one thing within a society: continue the cycle of poverty and increase the poor’s dependence upon the rich for their liberty, equality and most importantly, survival.

Shay’s Rebellion was a rebellion from the farmers. The farmers were heavily taxed in the 1700’s. People still argue to today weather the farmers were freedom fighters or rebels. Although Abigail Adams says that farmers were rebels, nevertheless farmers were freedom fighters because the taxes that farmers were forced to be payed went to the rich, there is little money the farmers have, and the Riot Act giving unlimited power to justices of peace-their actions motivated by revenge.

The Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada all began from the way their province was being ruled by the British. The Lower Canada rebels wanted the farming industry of the French Population to be more noticeable and less about business interest. Moreover, the reality is that the British are trying to take away the French culture and language in lower Canada. The French rebels believe that the “Château Clique” should not be controlled by the British. The leader of the Rebellions in the Lower Canada was Louis Joseph Papineau. His main goal was he wanted to monitor the revenues because at the time he gathers that the money was not spent correctly. The Rebellions wrote a political demands list, and the list got rejected by London, farmers in Lower

Would you call the Shays’ followers rebels or freedom fighters? Shay’s rebellion was about American farmers making a riot against state and local enforcement because they couldn’t pay taxes. Although many will argue that they were freedom fighters , nevertheless they were rebels because they wasted their money, they are persuading and convincing other men with false ideas, also they want the break the foundation and demolish the main or central idea of the country.

Americans are known for our high standard of living, but many Americans are not aware that the United States money is borrowed. Annually Americans are making the nation’s debt bigger and bigger. Due to the ignorance of many American’s, the United States is in decline. In Andrew Romano’s NEWSWEEK article How ignorant are Americans, states that “gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship test—38 percent failed. The country’s future is imperiled by our ignorance.” Just under half the test takers are unable to answer basic questions of how the United Sates became as what it has.

The actions of the members of Shay’s Rebellion were totally justified. The members were mad because the government was taking their land. As well as imprisoning them if they could not pay the amount of money needed. Shay, the leader of the rebellion, would have to sell a very special item to pay his part of the debt. That item would be a sword Marquis de Lafayette gave him. Many of the members were farmers who had their farms taking away. With not being able to provide for their families they held multiple meetings. As well as many riots protesting what the government was doing to raise money. The rebels tried the legal way to make the government stop. They tried potions, conventions, and sent letters to the government. When that didn’t work

it was not enough to pay one’s taxes and obey the country’s laws; it was also