Compare And Contrast Shays Rebellion And Whiskey Rebellion

In a time when the Pontiac was and French and Indian war had ended, the Articles of confederation was established. The Articles had weakened the National government and a social revolution occurred. In this context new taxes were created and a significant amount of resistance arose. Many violent protests had occurred in the 1700s, such as, the march of the Paxton boys, Shays rebellion, and the whiskey Rebellion. One significant protest that occurred in 1763 was the March of the paxton boys. The village of Paxton, became a racial and political anarchy during the Pontiac Rebellion. Paxton Pennsylvania was populated by many scott-Irish immigrants who were weary that the colonial assembly was not distraught about Native American attacks. The immigrants requested guns and soldiers but legislators still had ignored the requests. The men who lived in Paxton then took matters into their own hands and raided Indians in Lancaster County. However those indians had not participated in any attacks towards and counties. The Paxton boys then wrote letters to the government that they wanted to be taken serious. In 1764 the boys began to march to Philadelphia to explain their grievances, because the Paxton boys were seen as criminals the city organized a militia to confront the boys and to protect the Indians who lived in

After the Articles of Confederation was passed, the national government was weak and began to introduce new taxes to the Nation. Massachusetts began to impose unfair taxes on farmers, because farmers were not cooperative to these new taxes the court seized their property and some farmers were even sent to jail. Then 1,000 armed men Shay and his army marched where all the states money and power was, Boston. After the rebellion some rebels were caught, tried, and hung. Others such as Shay were