SHAYS’ REBELLION August 29, 1786 The Massachusetts rebellion, led by Daniel Shay, started largely due to financial difficulties led by a post-war economic depression and harsh state government policies instituted in 1785 to solve the state's debt problems. Protesters, including many war veterans, shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection. The protesters then arrested some state government leaders, and began to organize an armed force. A Massachusetts militia raised as a private army defeated Shay rebels attempting to seize the federal Springfield Armory in late January 1787, killing four and wounding twenty. The most significant incident was initiated in Sheffield in late February, where 30 rebels were wounded (one mortally) in a skirmish with government troops.

Many Americans saw Shays’s Rebellion as a sign that the Articles of Confederation didn’t work. In May 1787, leaders called for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. Representatives from each state would meet in Philadelphia. This meeting would become known as Constitutional Convention. The shock of Shays' Rebellion even drew retired General George Washington back into public life, leading to his terms as the United States' first President.

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