Effects Of Shays Rebellion

Daniel Shays was the leader of the Shays’ Rebellion. The revolution was group of protestors who tried to stop judgments against farmers and free the impounded farmers who were arrest due to their debts not paid. The rebellion was not successful, but changes were made to the Articles of Confederation.

Shays was common farm laborer before he went to the Armed Services. He was a former Continental Army officer who later became a captain. Mr. Shays was known for his leadership of the protesters in Shays’s Rebellion. When he went back home to western Massachusetts, he learned that he, along with his neighbors, had to pay for debts that were not paid while he was fighting for his country. Shays lived on a farm where he was a normal laborer. (Gale,

Even though the farmers took up arms in the urban towns around Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts was the area most serious revolution. This was the beginning of the end of the uprising named after Daniel Shays (Schultz, 2009). “As stated by Schultz (2009), “Shays’s Rebellion was a warning that the federal government would have to address the problem of debt to prevent a lower-class uprising” (p. 124). The rebellion was about large debts owed by farmers and they were having a difficult time paying them back to their creditors. There were serious issues facing these debts and it led to governmental implications which consisted of officials who made the loans wanted their money immediately so they would not repay their individually. Some of the farmers no longer had their land due to the military taking over their property for use combat. In addition, the prices sky rocked because of the inflation. These were farmers who also served time in the war along with Shay and they could not even get paid from the government for their services rendered. Who can these farmers pay their bills if they did not get paid? The war brought additional money, but the inflation was the cause for higher