People Involved
The Continental Army Captain who led the rebellion.
Who is Daniel Shays?
Many farmers felt this emotion because of the taxes they were forced to pay.
What is anger?
The articles that were revised due to the events of Shays's Rebellion.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A group of this many men were sent to shut down the court in Springfield.
What is 600?
A charge collected from individuals in order to pay off debt from the war.
What is tax?
The lack of means to repay their debt left many of these agricultural workers angry and desperate.
What are farmers?
Massachusetts residents paid higher taxes than during control under these people.
Who were the British?
This convention was the result of the rebellion and ultimately produced a new constitution.
What is the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?
In 1787, Men under command of this general were sent to stop the rebellion.
Who was Benjamin Lincoln?
An act of violent or open resistance to an established government.
What is a rebellion?
The man who wrote to George Washington to warn him about the rebels.
Who is Henry Knox?
Farmers became angry because the government took this from them due to their debt.
What is land?
The name of the constitution that replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
The failure of this branch of government to address petitions concerning debt relief caused the protests to increase.
What is the legislative branch?
Money owed by the borrower to the lender.
What is debt?
This person came out of retirement because of the rebellion and attended the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
Protests often blocked the jobs of these workers.
Who were debt collectors?
What is pardoned?
Shays organized protests at these locations.
What were county court hearings?
The original constitution of the United States, ratified in 1781.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This newly-elected governor pardoned many of the participants in Shays' Rebellion.
Who is John Hancock?
Many veterans of this war were denied their compensation for serving.
What is the Revolutionary War?
Four of these were killed and twenty were wounded.
Who were the rebels?
The name Daniel Shays's men gave themselves, which referenced a reform movement in North Carolina twenty years earlier.
What is Regulators?