Because Congress was unable to stop Shays’s Rebellion and the Pennsylvania Mutiny, it feared the

Shays’s Rebellion and the Pennsylvania Mutiny showed that the national government under the Articles of Confederation had too little power to respond effectively to unrest. Congress feared that further rebellions could spread and lead to anarchy, meaning a breakdown of order. Therefore, the correct choice is “spread of future rebellions and anarchy.”

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