I believe that the actions of members of Shay’s Rebellion was smart. This all started when the americans wanted the articles of confederation to be changed. In the paragraph “a call for changes’” it says“ After the revolutionary war , the united states experienced a depression, a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.” The government still had to pay foreign debts but they did not have much money. This resulted in a really bad currency shortage. This affected the farmers greatly because they could not sell their goods. They could not pay taxes, so state officials either seized your land to pay debts and then most likely put you in jail. Daniel Shay, a “former Continental Army captain” led angry farmers to a war
