Shays Rebellion
  • led by Daniel Shays
  • Shays and a band of Masachusetts farmers rose up and demanded tax and debt relief
  • escalated  when a mob seized the state arsenal in Soringfield
  • Massachusetts militia marched in and quelled rebellion
  • scares people like merchants and bankers, need a stronger gov
Bacons Rebellion
  • in Virginia
  • Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, was allowing the planters to have more authority than the poorer people on the fronteir 
  • Have troubles with Indians on the fronteir, but Berkely won't let the fronteirsmen kill them
  • Nathaniel Bacon and his gang burn down Jamestown
  • Bacon dies of disentary shortly after the attack
  • Berkely regains control
Whiskey Rebellion
  • on fronteir
  • Farmers were hit hard by the whiskey excise tax that was part of Hamilton's financial plan
  • farmers violently protested the tax by tarring and feathering tax collectors or destroying public buildings
  • Washington send in troops to quell the rebellion
  • the rebels scattered, their leader, however, was caught
Nat Turner Rebellion
  • mob of black kill thousands of whites
  • in turn makes people even tougher on slaves
  • helps South justify slavery
  • more firmly entrenches each side's view on slavery
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