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Weak Government = Problems!Here's an explanation of how the
weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation led to Shays' Rebellion, which led to the creation of the Constitution.
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Daniel Shays
• Captain in the Revolutionary War
• Retired from the army
• Wanted to be a farmer in Massachusetts
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Uh oh...no money!
• Remember! The Congress didn't have the power to tax states...they could only ask for money!
• The states said no!
• So Congress couldn't pay its bills!
• So they printed more money!
• So they caused inflation and made money worth less!
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How can you be a farmer if you have no money?
Get a loan from the bank!
Plant your seeds!
When your crops are grown, harvest them, sell them, and pay your loan back!
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Uh oh...problems!What if the bank wants its money back NOW?
But your crops haven't grown yet?
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THE REPO MAN COMES!
The bank repossesses the farms and kicks the former soldiers out of their homes!
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Why didn't they have any money?
• Inflation! The money they did have was worthless.
• Taxes! The state of Massachusetts had placed high taxes that hit the farmers very hard.
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Who cares about having a farm anyway?
• Without property, you can't feed your family!
• Without property, you can't vote!
• Without property, you can't make money!
• Without making money, you get thrown into debtor's prison!
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Give me my house!
• Daniel Shays and the farmers pick up their guns and go to the state courthouse to stop them from foreclosing on their homes.
• AND IT WORKED!!!
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So they kept doing it...
And made the people in the government afraid!
The government made new laws that were meant to punish Shays and his followers.
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The Congress can't help
Since the Articles of Confederation did not give Congress the power to raise a standing army, the federal government could not help stop the rebellion.
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The Climax
The state of Massachusetts sets up an army.
Shays and his followers try to take over a federal arsenal to get more guns so that they could fight the army.
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Shays and his men lost the battle.Some of them got the death penalty for
having participated in the rebellion.
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ImIEcsTEVo
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To the Constitution...
• The failure of the federal government to solve the problem of Shays' Rebellion made people understand that the Articles of Confederation had made the government too weak.
• A Constitutional Convention was called to solve the problem.
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The Constitution Is Born!
• After 16 weeks of arguments, the new Constitution was created.
• And that's the government that we still have today!
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