Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades;[2] the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays
led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against
economic and civil rights injustices. Shays was a farmhand from
Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War; he joined the
Continental Army, saw action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, and Battles of Saratoga, and was eventually wounded in action.
In 1787, Shays' rebels marched on the United States' Springfield Armory
in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the
government. The federal government found itself unable to finance troops
to put down the rebellion, and it was consequently put down by the
Massachusetts State militia and a privately funded local militia. The
widely held view was that the Articles of Confederation needed to be reformed as the country's governing document, and the events of the rebellion served as a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention and the creation of the new government.[3]
The shock of Shays' Rebellion drew retired General George Washington back into public life, leading to his two terms as the first president of the United States.[3] There is still debate among scholars concerning the rebellion's influence on the Constitution and its ratification.
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