Vocabulary
Money that people or businesses pay to the government to help pay for services and expenses.
What are taxes?
Money used to buy goods and services.
What is currency?
This Massachusetts farmer and Revolutionary War veteran became the leader of a rebellion against the state government.
Who was Daniel Shays?
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An association of states that work together while each state keeps most of its own power.
What is a confederacy?
This American Revolutionary had protested British taxes before the Revolution but later supported harsh punishment for farmers protesting their own government.
Who was Samuel Adams?
A person who owes money to another person or organization.
What is a debtor?
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This is what Massachusetts required taxpayers to use to pay their taxes in 1786.
What are gold and silver coins?
Many Massachusetts farmers who had fought in the Revolutionary War were frustrated because they had not received these payments they were promised.
What were their back pay and pensions for serving in the war?
To officially approve a document or agreement. The states did this to the Articles of Confederation in 1781.
What is ratify?
This Massachusetts law, passed in 1786, allowed officials to kill rioters who refused to disband without being held legally responsible.
What was the Riot Act?
This word means clearly and specifically stated. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress only had the powers that were listed.
What does expressly mean?
Massachusetts increased taxes by approximately this percentage in 1786.
What is 500%?
In August and September 1786, Massachusetts farmers protested by doing this to prevent court proceedings.
What was blocking courts from operating and preventing judges from entering?
The part of government responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws. The Articles did not create a national department of this kind.
What is the executive branch?
While this Founding Father was retired at Mount Vernon, letters describing Shays’ Rebellion as a violent uprising reached him and raised concerns about the strength of the national government.
Who was George Washington?
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This word describes a rebellion or revolt against a government or authority.
What is an insurrection?
After borrowing money from countries such as France and the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War, the United States faced this problem.
What is the need to repay its foreign debts?
This right protects people from unlawful imprisonment by allowing them to know the charges against them and challenge their detention in court.
What is habeas corpus?
The ability of people to govern themselves and make their own laws instead of being ruled by another country.
What is self-government?
This military storage facility was approached by Daniel Shays and his followers on January 25, 1787.
What was the Springfield Armory?
A person who starts something, such as a protest or rebellion.
What is an instigator?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government COULD NOT DO THIS... This made it difficult to solve the country's financial problems.
What is raise taxes or establish a national currency.?
The suspension of habeas corpus motivated farmers to continue protesting because they believed this was threatened.
What were their patriotic rights?
Shays’ Rebellion strengthened the belief that America needed a stronger central government. This word means to make something stronger or more certain.
What is solidify?
How Samuel Adams’ had opposed British taxes but later supported harsh punishment for farmers who were protesting high Massachusetts taxes could be described.