Shays' Rebellion
Title: Shays' Rebellion
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Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion
After the American Revolution unsettled economic conditions
and a severe depression tore the young nation. Paper money
was in circulation, but little of it was honored at face
value. Merchants and other "sound money" men wanted
currencies with gold backing. In Massachusetts the "sound
money" men were property owners and controlled the
government. Most of those who were harmed by the depression
were without property and thus unable to vote. Conflict
between these …
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tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural
manure.”
Thomas Jefferson (17431826), U.S. president. Letter, 13
Nov. 1787, referring to Daniel Shays’s rebellion of poor
farmers in Massachusetts. Jefferson, writing from Paris,
was the only one of the American leaders not alarmed by
news of the revolt.
Bibliography:
Feidel, F., and May, E., eds., Shays's Rebellion (1989);
Kaufman, M., ed.,
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