Shays' Rebellion

The Revolution is over a decade past; it’s 1787, the United States is currently using the Articles of Confederation. The recent events of Shay’s rebellion show us that the Articles of Confederation is inefficient and fails to protect people's natural rights. This raises a concern that the Articles of Confederation should be replaced by the new Constitution. We should ratify the Constitution to better protect people's natural rights. Amos Singletary, a Massachusetts representative, is against the…

Articles of Confederation. To support this claim, there are multiple forms of textual evidence that can be used. To start, when the Constitution was first introduced as an improvement to the A.of C. two noteworthy rebellions are caused. (Doc. D and Doc. E.) The first is Shays Rebellion which was caused due to an regional economic depression that was intensified by taxes. These taxes were meant to help pay national debt. However it actually made the farmers (especially in New England) upset…

Virginia, drafted the final report of the Annapolis Proceedings of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government Acts of the commissioners to remedy failures in the federal government. These acts saw the legislative bodies of the participating states as well as the Congress of the Confederation and the executive powers of the other states. In them it was recommended to convene a new convention - specifying date and place: "in Philadelphia, the second Monday of May" - to discuss…

warmth of the fire was glorious. “ What is your name, miss?”, asked a young lad with shaggy, sandy blonde hair and a bright mix of green and blue eyes. around the age of four. “ Emmaline Adams. What is your’s?”, I asked the energetic young lad. “ Shay Miles.”, Shay giggled. A woman with bright green eyes and caramel hair came up to me. “ I’m Caroline Miles and this here is my husband Edward Miles.”, she said with an british accent. “ Thank you for allowing me to stay in your home, Mr. and Mrs.…

On numerous occurrences, it was perceived that Articles of Confederation was insufficient and ineffective to wrestle the difficulties. In 1786, Shays' Rebellion arose in western Massachusetts as a dispute to escalating debt and economic disarray. However, the national government was incapable to meet a shared military force among the states to help lay down the uprising. Correspondingly, when congress decided to advance western land assimilated by US through the Paris treaty, congress…

Paper 1 This paper will answer the question of What are the ends or purposes of American government? How are they different from other regimes, such as ancient Sparta or Puritan colonies? How do the ends of regimes alter the role of government in society? America is different from other nations at the time because the government was designed to highlight the values that the founding Americans believed in these values can be found in the constitution. “Back in 1787, the constitution’s creators…

The American Revolution was revolutionary for many reasons. Some of the reasons were , because of the battles, the taxes, the protests, and the rebellion of the patriots. Because of the American Revolution, the thirteen colonies were able to change socially, politically and economically. This was one of the major causes that started the war. Major events throughout the American Revolution were the reasons why this war was revolutionary. Events such as The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party…

trying to obtain all delegates from each state because it was known that no progress would ever be made on the matters at hand. The last straw for support of the articles of confederation was broken with the outbreak of Shays’s Rebellion. In 1786 Daniel Shays started a rebellion fighting the banks and establishments that were not justly foreclosing people’s farms and increasing their debts and taxes after their service in the revolution. In the late 1780’s “most Americans had grown deeply…

Additionally, in “What You Should Know about the Articles of Confederation (Secondary Source)” by Martin Kelly, it articulates, “In 1786, Shays' Rebellion occurred in western Massachusetts as a protest to rising debt and economic chaos. However, the national government was unable to gather a combined military force amongst the states to help put down the rebellion.” Here, the Constitution would be a more efficient form of government because the national government would have the power to stop…

would need a strong centralized government. Socially, women, slaves, and Loyalists were mainly affected. Economically, Americans were not affected greatly, but poor farmers protested the high taxes imposed upon them, which became known as Shay’s Rebellion. The idea of King George III and his idea of an absolute monarchy was not appealing to the colonists at all. The Articles of Confederation were created so there was no national executive branch, there was no president. Additionally, the…