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Shays' Rebellion Review

Answer the following questions about Shays' Rebellion.

  1. Who dealt a crippling blow to American trade by prohibiting trade with the West Indies?
    1. Spain
    2. Pirates
    3. Britain
    4. France

    Answer: c. Britain. They were the British West Indies.

  2. Why were American relations with France strained during this time?
    1. France didn't like the U.S. after the Revolutionary War.
    2. The Articles of Confederation made it illegal for Americans to do business with France.
    3. The U.S. owed France a lot of money from our Revolutionary War debt.

    Answer: c. The US owed France a lot of money from our Revolutionary War debt.

  3. A group of nearly 1200, led by Daniel Shays, marched to the federal arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts; the uprising called the _______blank was squelched by the state militia.
    1. Shays' Insurrection
    2. Shays' Rebellion
    3. Farmers' Insurrection
    4. Farmers' Rebellion

    Answer: b. Shays' Rebellion

  4. Why did the farmers participate in Shays' Rebellion? They were protesting against _______blank.
    1. non-payment of their salaries from fighting in the war
    2. trade problems with Britain, France, and Spain
    3. the Articles of Confederation
    4. newly levied, high taxes

    Answer: d. newly levied, high taxes

  5. Farmer and former Continental Army captain who led the group of nearly 1,200 farmers in a rebellion in 1786 to protest the high taxes that the Massachusetts legislature had levied to pay off war debt
    1. Daniel Shays
    2. John Adams
    3. John Dickinson
    4. Daniel Morgan

    Answer: a. Daniel Shays

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