Shays Rebellion
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- You need to pay your taxes
- But how about if I don't have the money too?
- Let's take back our stuff that the government took from us.
- After the end of the Revolutionary war in 1781 America owed a lot of money from the war, so they decided to tax people, especially farmers.
- We did it we took the court house.
- The farmers in Massachusetts became angry with this weak new government the U.S. had just created, because it was taxing them harder.
- So Daniel's Shays a former Continental Army captain, came back and gathered farmers who were also upset about the taxation .
- We should make a stronger government.
- Shay's forged the angered farmers into an army to protest, and fight the government for the ways of taxing.
- James Bowdoin , the governor of Massachusetts, pulled together his own army to defeat shays Rebellion and he succeeded.
- Even thought Shays Rebellion disintegrated easily against James army, the movement showed weakness in the new government , and it changed things because many people agreed with Shays Rebellion.
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