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Shay’s Rebellion Study Guide
1. What was Shay’s Rebellion? Who led the Rebellion?(1:45)
2. Why does Washington turn away from leadership?
3. What was America like after the American Revolution? (During the 1780s)(4:00 mins)
4. What were the Articles of Confederation? (4:30)
5. How did the Articles of Confederation cause Shay’s Rebellion?
6. What happened to Daniel Shay’s after the American Revolution? Was he a hero? (7:15)
Was he a good officer? (7:30)
7. How did Daniel Shays hit hard times after the Revolutionary War? (9:00)
8. Why did the farmers in Western Mass. borrow money? (10:00)
9. Why did the banks seize the farmers property or throw people who owed money in
prison?
10. Why did rich people in Eastern Mass. run into conflict with people of Western Mass?
(14:00)
11. Did Samuel Adams stay out of politics? (15:15)
12. How did Shays and his followers see the new conflict as a second Revolution? (17:00)
13. What did Shays sell to pay his debts? (18:00)
14. How did Shays and his followers close courts and why? (21:00)
15. What was the militia act? What was the Riot Act? (23:00)
16. How did Henry Knox talk Washington into returning into politics? (24:00)
17. How did Washington feel about these reports from Knox? (25:00)
18. What was Washington’s advice to Massachusetts? Did they listen? (25:30)
19. How did the press play into Shay’s Rebellion? (26:00)
20. Why couldn’t the federal government help in Massachusetts? (27:00)
21. Who was Benjamin Lincoln? What did he do to fight Daniel Shays? (28:00)
22. What was the goal of Daniel Shays going to the Springfield armory? (28:30)
23. What did Shays intend to do to Boston? How did he plan to overthrow the state of
Massachusetts? (29:00)
24. In the Winter of 1787, what held the countries attention? (30:00)
25. What was the plan at the federal arsenal? (32:00)
26. What happens at Springfield? How many people died or were hurt? (33:00)
27. What happened to Shays? What happened to some of Shay’s men? (35:00)
28. Why was the new nation unravelling? (37:00)
29. What did people think of Washington coming back? How did it give people hope?(38:00)
30. What did the Constitutional Convention decide to do to the Articles of Confederations?
31. What did Federalist want?
32. What did Anti-Federalists want?
33. How was there a compromise?
34. What happened to Daniel Shays? (41:40) How old was Shays when he got his
assistance? Why? (43:00)