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	Shays' Rebellion
		Shays' Rebellion, the post-Revolutionary clash between New England farmers and merchants that tested the precarious institutions of the new republic, threatened to plunge the "disunited states" into a civil war.
		Shays' Rebellion "had a great influence on public opinion," as Samuel Eliot Morison notes; it was the fiercest outbreak of discontent in the early republic, and public feeling ran high on both sides.
		Shays' Rebellion had a generally unifying effect upon the supporters of a stronger national government, and it was a lesson frequently invoked on the floor of the Federal Convention during the summer of 1787.
	www.calliope.org /shays/shays2.html (2448 words)

	Shays's Rebellion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sentiment was particularly high against the commercial interests who controlled the state senate in Boston, and the lawyers who hastened the farmers’ bankruptcy by their exorbitant fees for litigation.
		Most of the leaders were pardoned almost immediately, and Shays was finally pardoned in June, 1788.
		The rebellion influenced Massachusetts’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution; it also swept Bowdoin out of office and achieved some of its legislative goals.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sh/ShayssRe.html (320 words)

	John Hancock's Big Toe and the Constitution by Gary North
		The rebellion was defeated in battles and skirmishes in the winter and early spring of 1787.
		Shays' Rebellion was used effectively by the nationalists to scare voters into accepting both the legitimacy of the Convention and the legality of the Constitution.
		Shays' Rebellion provided an opportunity for a majority of a group of 55 men, more than half of whom were lawyers, to break the law of the land and get away with it.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north247.html (3268 words)

	Shay's Rebellion: 1787
		Shays needed backup and Luke Day and his fleet were supposed to come and aid Shays during the attack, but because of a lack in communication, Shays was defeated and forced to flee.
		Shays' anger began to fume during the postwar depression because the Massachusetts legislature denied the demands of farmers for paper money that would have prevented foreclosure on their lands.
		Shays was hit hard by the impact of the depression on not only himself, but seeing the effects that it had on his friends and family of the community.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Usa/ShaysReb.html (577 words)

	Wikinfo \| Shays' Rebellion
		Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in 1786 by small farmers over high debt and tax burdens.
		Shays himself was sentenced to death for treason but pardoned by Massachusetts governor John Hancock.
		Eventually the force for the rebellion was dissipated both by an improving economy and by the election of sympathetic individuals to replace incumbents (including many of Shays' followers, despite the ban).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Shays'_Rebellion (573 words)

	The Boston University Washington Journalism Center
		Recently, Shays and a group of about 20 other moderate Republicans made news for opposing the GOP leadership over a number of issues, but Shays' rebellion is nothing new.
		Shays, along with fellow Connecticut Reps. Nancy Johnson (R-5 th) and Rob Simmons (R-2 nd) signed the letter and the provision was eventually eliminated from the legislation.
		Shays' Democratic leaning 4th District, voted for Al Gore for president in 2000 and John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race.
	www.bu.edu /washjocenter/newswire_pg/fall2005/conn/shaysrebellion.htm (1074 words)

	Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
		Shays's Rebellion, which occurred from summer 1786 through winter 1787, was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts against the state government and was, quite possibly, the crystallizing event that occasioned the constitutional change in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787.
		The conventional wisdom about Daniel Shays and his fellow insurgents is that they were "poor," "debt-ridden," and "destitute" farmers from the backcountry of western Massachusetts who were trying to avoid payment of their debts; the participants were heavily indebted backcountry farmers who had been victimized by the post-Revolutionary War Massachusetts economy.
		Shays's Rebellion concludes with an examination of the campaign for the ratification of the Constitution in Massachusetts.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0550.shtml (2641 words)

	Shays Rebellion - About Us
		The show happened to fall on 4/20 and Shays Rebellion was rightfully blitzed when they took the stage and kicked out a performance that put the crowd into a frenzy.
		Shays Rebellion was reunited in the fall of 2003 and began playing with more energy than ever before.
		Today, Shays Rebellion are still rehearsing, writing new songs and playing shows in the Humboldt area and are hoping to bring their music to a greater audience.
	www.shaysrebels.com /aboutus.cfm (777 words)

	New England 6 Shays's Rebellion
		Shays coordinated his assault on Springfield with those of Luke Day, who had gathered a force of 400 men around him, and another force under a man named Parson.
		In 1936 the monument was erected by the Sons of the American Revolution on the 150th anniversary of the Rebellion.
		Since Shays was from Pelham the Pelham Historical Society in the old Congregational Church has some Shays memorabilia.
	members.aol.com /nonracists/neshays.html (3392 words)

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		An analysis of both the causes and effects of Shays’s Rebellion highlights its contribution to the demise of the Articles of Confederation and the ratification of the Constitution.
		Starkey reveals one of the many lessons of the rebellion: “Government was not to be amended by force of arms.
		Upon hearing of the rebellion, George Washington decided to attend the Philadelphia Convention; plans for the new Constitution were strongly underway.
	www.colorado.edu /PWR/occasions/shays.html (2401 words)

	American History - Shays Rebellion
		Shay's Rebellion was the first armed uprising of the new nation.
		Shays' Rebellion hinted that law and order were seriously breaking down across the new United States to the extent that the national government, under the Articles of Confederation, could not even protect its own arsenal.
		Shays' Rebellion kindled the people's desire to form stronger national government which could enforce law, keep order, and solve the problems facing the developing United States.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=42815 (1158 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		For Shays and his supporters, this event marked the beginning of the end of their armed resistance to what they believed was an oppressive state government run by men unwilling, in the midst of a severe economic depression, to lower taxes or prevent foreclosures on farms.
		Nonetheless, even in defeat Shays' Rebellion had a major impact far beyond the state of Massachusetts, for it convinced many national leaders of the need to form a stronger federal government, a sentiment that led to the Constitutional convention later that year.
		Daniel Shays was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1747, the son of Margaret Dempsey and Patrick Shay (spelled without the s at the end).
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=12557 (1214 words)

	Shay's Rebellion - 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America - History Channel
		Shays’ Rebellion is never stated as one of the greatest inspirations for the development of the Constitution in textbooks, the way it is here.
		Shays is shown as a man attempting to redress his grievances as well as he can.
		Another positive aspect is the smooth transition from the rebellion to the ensuing Constitutional Convention, which was the event that justified the real importance of the rebellion.
	www.civilwarinteractive.com /10DaysShaysRebellion1.htm (582 words)

	The Charlatan Stew Collection... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nor was the rebellion in any way a localized affair: resistance to the counter-revolution was widespread throughout the country; Massachusetts was merely the place where it was the strongest.
		The first thing that must be realized is that the rebellion was not "Shays'." Shays was the leader only in a purely military sense; despite government attempts to label him a dictator (and English agent), he did not want and was not offered political leadership.
		Shays had become a Captain in the army over the objection of the more aristocratic officers only after his Company (consisting of his neighbors) refused to serve under anyone else; he was later forced to resign after committing an exceedingly practical but scandalously ungentlemanly act.
	recollectionbooks.com /siml/library/CS/ShaysRebellion.htm (3786 words)

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		The events that became known as Shays' Rebellion came to symbolize the widespread discontent manifested throughout New England during the economic depression that followed the American Revolution.
		Shays' men retreated to the Pelham Hills, where they were followed by four regiments of troops (raised and paid for by Boston and eastern Massachusetts merchants) under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln.
		Shays' Rebellion crystallized these issues precisely at the time when the states were choosing delegates to attend the convention that was to draft the Constitution of the United States.
	www.historic-northampton.org /Articles/213/543/0/951766360 (454 words)

	An Account of Shays's Rebellion (1786Ñ1787)
		This also gave time for the several towns to use their influence with their own people to return, if they thought proper to urge it, and to circulate among Shays' men that they would be recommended for a pardon if they would come in, and lay down their arms.
		In the evening of the same day, I was informed that Shays had left his ground, and had pointed his rout towards Petersham in the County of Worcester, where he intended to make a stand as a number of Towns in the vicinity had engaged to support him.
		A different line of conduct which Shays flattered his troops would have been followed, would have given them support, and led them to acts of violence, whilst it must have buoyed up the hopes of their abettors, and stimulated them to greater exertions....
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/ShayReb.html (1227 words)

	Shays’ Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They were led by Daniel Shays, a former army captain in the Revolutionary War.
		The purpose of the rebellion was to prevent foreclosures by keeping the courts from sitting until the next election.
		The Rebellion was eventually quelled, but its impact was significant.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~lara276/pptschedule/sld007.htm (59 words)

	Prentice Hall Documents Library: Shays' Rebellion (1786-1787) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Daniel Shays (1747?-1825), a Revolutionary War army veteran, led a march of several hundred farmers and workers to Springfield, Massachusetts, the largest city in the western part of the state in September, 1786.
		During Shays' rebellion, farmers were able to force the closure of law courts in Northampton, Great Barrington, Worcester and Concord and to free debtors and fellow insurrectionists from jail.
		Shays' men were sentenced to death for treason in February, 1787, but were later pardoned.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/dye4/medialib/docs/shay.htm (292 words)

	Salon Feature \| Shays' rebellion takes the House
		In the end, Tuesday's debate gave a temporary sense of closure to Shays, who has been slaving away at this seemingly Sisyphean task all year, at times possibly risking his job in the process.
		Shays and his team didn't seem even remotely beckoned by the outdoor splendor, however, as they fought off all the last-minute attempts to undermine their bill.
		Shays was especially nervous about the next amendment, offered by Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., which targeted the "sham ad" provision of his bill.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/15/shays/print.html (2101 words)

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		The hero, Captain Daniel Shays, an ex-Revolutionary officer, and the majority of men in his rebel ranks were revolutionary soldiers who were nearly all impoverished through their Revolutionary War services and were considered rabble rousers by merchants and lawyers.
		Shays and 1,500 followers, many wearing their old Continental Army uniforms with a sprig of hemlock in their hats, occupied the Springfield Courthouse from September 25th to 28th, preventing the Supreme Judicial Court from sitting.
		Shays' Rebellion is considered the one of the leading causes in the formation of the United States Constitution.
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	Daniel Shays Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shays' Rebellion lasted from August 1786 to February 1787.
		Shays himself later received a war pension for his service in the American Revolution.
		Shays' Rebellion was one of several disturbances in different states.
	www.whiskeyrebellion.org /dshay.htm (316 words)

	Shays' Rebellion
		Shays was said to be a very "prominent" leader, hence the name Shays' rebellion.
		Shays replied that the rebellion was due to real grievances but that the people would disperse if given a general pardon, and asked for a truce until petitions could be presented to the legislature.
		The reaction caused by Shays' rebellion is one of the key factors leading to the drafting of the Constitution.
	members.aol.com /kheiden (1714 words)

	Media Law & Ethics: Class Notes: Section 3: Federalist Era
		Shays' Rebellion was an uprising in 1786-1787 in Massachusetts caused by what farmers considered to be too high taxes on land and by the hard money policy of the national government.
		Shays' Rebellion and the government's response showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and was one of the events that led to the gathering in Philadelphia to draw up a new constitution.
		The Whiskey Rebellion was an uprising in 1794 by 3,000 settlers in Pennsylvania west of the Alleghenies who opposed the tax on distilled whiskey.
	www.class.uh.edu /comm/classes/comm4303/section3/federalistera.html (4720 words)

	Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 (RJO's Genealogy)
		The climax of the Rebellion was an attempt to seize the state arsenal at Springfield.
		At a national level, the Rebellion convinced many people that a strong central government was needed, as advocated by the Federalist party which supported the adoption of the Constitution.
		Lemuel Shattuck [123–27] provides an extensive account of Job Shattuck and his role in Shays’ Rebellion: “The five years immediately succeeding the close of the revolutionary war was a most gloomy and trying period in the history of Massachusetts.
	rjohara.net /gen/wars/shays.html (1644 words)

	The Tribes and the States, Shays rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the Shays Rebellion had unfortunately not developed the same sort of efficient spy system that the civil disobedience system of 1775 had, the rebels were found unprepared to meet a militia force of the size they actually encountered.
		The rebellion had been one uprising in a period of economic depression, when lack of work was one of the chief complaints of the workers, and anyone who could offer a large amount of employment―even if it were temporary emergency employment―could effectively break the back of any rebellion on the part of the workers.
		On the authorities’ assumption that Shays was the prime moving spirit that caused the rebellion and kept it going, they supposed that this would be a betrayal of this rebellion, and considered Shays a coward when he sent a reply accepting the offer.
	www.sidis.net /TSChap26.htm (4204 words)

	Shays Fought the Revolution's Final Battle, and We Lost
		Shays’ Rebellion is usually described as a revolt of poor, backcountry farmers in western Massachusetts during the fall and winter of 1786 – 1787.
		Richards decided to write a book on Shays’ Rebellion when he discovered by accident that the Massachusetts archives had microfilmed the signatures of the 4,000 men who signed the state’s oath of allegiance in 1787.
		The Shays’ Regulators were outraged over the state’s new constitution and the manner in which it had been ratified.
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