Shay’s Rebellion Worksheet answers
1. 36 Massachusetts
2. officer
3. American Revolutionary battles
4. 5 sword
5. wife farm
6. The money was worthless – the Continental Congress had printed money to pay soldiers but $ was
not backed by silver or gold, too much $ in circulation also depreciates its value
7. Farmers wanted to grow more to meet the war demand (during war demand for goods increases) –
they had borrowed $ to increase crops, good during war, then war ends and demand goes down, they
are left with too many crops and not enough buyers but the banks want their $ paid back
8. prison
9. boils, sick, disease, bad conditions!
10. close down courts (who were sending debtors to prison)
11. families left without providers, women begging on the streets
12. vote
13. Eastern
14. conventions
15. petition
16. taxes, ignored
17. debts, sword, LaFayette
18. Bunker Hill, army, American Revolution
19. hemlock, tyranny
20. 1,000
21. courts
22. 9,000