Shays S Rebellion

Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 215 pages
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Release : 2014-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203196

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Shays's Rebellion by Leonard L. Richards Pdf

During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite—even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his country—that ultimately the Articles of Confederation were discarded in favor of a new constitution, the very document that has guided the nation for more than two hundred years, and brought closure to the American Revolution. The importance of Shays's Rebellion has never been fully appreciated, chiefly because Shays and his followers have always been viewed as a small group of poor farmers and debtors protesting local civil authority. In Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Leonard Richards reveals that this perception is misleading, that the rebellion was much more widespread than previously thought, and that the participants and their supporters actually represented whole communities—the wealthy and the poor, the influential and the weak, even members of some of the best Massachusetts families. Through careful examination of contemporary records, including a long-neglected but invaluable list of the participants, Richards provides a clear picture of the insurgency, capturing the spirit of the rebellion, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Shays's Rebellion, though seemingly a local affair, was the revolution that gave rise to modern American democracy.

Author : Ellis Roxburgh
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538207680

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Shays' Rebellion by Ellis Roxburgh Pdf

The early years of the United States weren’t wholly tranquil. The new nation was on rocky economic ground. Though paper money was in circulation, it wasn’t worth much. Many people were suffering and didn’t have a voice in government. These conditions gave rise to the rebellion led by former Continental army captain Daniel Shays, beginning in 1786. This volume explains what happened when Shays and more than one thousand followers attempted to capture a Massachusetts arsenal and how this rebellion led to the formation of a new and stronger federal government.

Author : Robert A. Feer
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001508552

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Shay's Rebellion by Robert A. Feer Pdf

Author : B. A. Hoena
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787
ISBN : 9781666323054

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Shays' Rebellion by B. A. Hoena Pdf

"In 1786, the Massachusetts government was seizing farmers' lands and throwing them in jail for unpaid debts and taxes. But many people couldn't pay because they had not yet been paid for fighting in the Revolutionary War just a few years before. Frustrated by this treatment, Daniel Shay led upset citizens in an armed revolt. Although their rebellion was short lived, it made clear to America's leaders that the young nation needed to change its laws, paving the way for the creation of the U.S. Constitution"--

Author : Mary Hull
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766014185

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Shays' Rebellion and the Constitution in American History by Mary Hull Pdf

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Author : John Noble
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 034452163X

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A Few Notes on the Shays Rebellion by John Noble Pdf

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Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787
ISBN : 9780756538507

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Shays' Rebellion by Michael Burgan Pdf

Explores the circumstances in Massachusetts that led farmers to rebel against local and state governments soon after the Revolutionary War.

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814783436

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The Contrast by Cynthia A. Kierner Pdf

“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

Author : Daniel Bullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1594164177

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Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion by Daniel Bullen Pdf

On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot at a peaceful demonstration of 1,200 farmers approaching the federal arsenal. The shots killed four and wounded twenty, marking the climax of five months of civil disobedience in Massachusetts, where farmers challenged the state's authority to seize their farms for flagrantly unjust taxes. Government leaders and influential merchants painted these protests as a violent attempt to overthrow the state, in hopes of garnering support for strengthening the federal government in a Constitutional Convention. As a result, the protests have been hidden for more than two hundred years under the misleading title, "Shays's Rebellion, the armed uprising that led to the Constitution." But this widely accepted narrative is just a legend: the "rebellion" was almost entirely nonviolent, and retired Revolutionary War hero Daniel Shays was only one of many leaders. Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion: An American Story by Daniel Bullen tells the history of the crisis from the protesters' perspective. Through five months of nonviolent protests, the farmers kept courts throughout Massachusetts from hearing foreclosures, facing down threats from the government, which escalated to the point that Governor James Bowdoin ultimately sent an army to arrest them. Even so, the people won reforms in an electoral landslide. Thomas Jefferson called these protests an honorable rebellion, and hoped that Americans would never let twenty years pass without such a campaign, to rein in powerful interests. This riveting and meticulously researched narrative shows that Shays and his fellow protesters were hardly a dangerous rabble, but rather a proud people who banded together peaceably, risking their lives for justice in a quintessentially American story.

Author : Marion Lena Starkey
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787
ISBN : UVA:X000316389

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A Little Rebellion by Marion Lena Starkey Pdf

Author : Sean Condon
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421417448

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Shays's Rebellion by Sean Condon Pdf

How an uprising of debtors and small farmers unwittingly influenced the U.S. Constitution. Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves “regulators” or the “voice of the people,” these crowds attempted to pressure the state government to lower taxes and provide relief to debtors by using some of the same methods employed against British authority a decade earlier. From the perspective of men of wealth and station, these farmers threatened the foundations of society: property rights and their protection in courts and legislature. In this concise and compelling account of the uprising that came to be known as Shays’s Rebellion, Sean Condon describes the economic difficulties facing both private citizens and public officials in newly independent Massachusetts. He explains the state government policy that precipitated the farmers’ revolt, details the machinery of tax and debt collection in the 1780s, and provides readers with a vivid example of how the establishment of a republican form of government shifted the boundaries of dissent and organized protest. Underscoring both the fragility and the resilience of government authority in the nascent republic, the uprising and its aftermath had repercussions far beyond western Massachusetts; ultimately, it shaped the framing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution, which in turn ushered in a new, stronger, and property-friendly federal government. A masterful telling of a complicated story, Shays’s Rebellion is aimed at scholars and students of American history.

Author : David P. Szatmary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000139204

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Shays' Rebellion by David P. Szatmary Pdf

Shays' Rebellion is often dismissed in the history books as an isolated incident following the American Revolution. Sometimes, it's grudingly given credit for spurring the Constitution Convention. In this well-balanced book, David P. Szatmary devotes the time and study necessary to classify Shays' Rebellion as the historical watershed it truly is. Shays' Rebellion signified more than economically depressed New England farmers waging war on creditors; it marked the beginning of the end of the American subsistence farmer. This change in an accepted way of life was at least as painful as the birth of the new United States. Szatmary chronicles how international influences forced a change in how merchants, farmers and artisans interacted, and how the initial changes brought friction. The rebellion resulting from this friction in turn revealed how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in dealing with a crisis that could destroy the country. Szatmary links the state's governments weakness to the Constitution by using newspaper and editorial accounts of the day to provide a well-rounded view of an overlooked milestone.

Author : Sean Condon
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421417431

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Shays's Rebellion by Sean Condon Pdf

A masterful telling of a complicated story, Shays's Rebellion is aimed at scholars and students of American history.

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0813913543

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In Debt to Shays by Robert A. Gross Pdf

In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context

Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199923359

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The Whiskey Rebellion by Thomas P. Slaughter Pdf

When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode in which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of the American Revolution. The book not only offers the broadest and most comprehensive account of the Whiskey Rebellion ever written, taking into account the political, social and intellectual contexts of the time, but also challenges conventional understandings of the Revolutionary era.