Why did Daniel Shays and other farmers start Shays’s Rebellion?

Many Massachusetts farmers had debts and struggled to pay taxes after the Revolutionary War. Courts could seize and sell their farms to pay those debts, so Shays and other farmers rebelled to stop foreclosures and protest the state government’s policies. This matches the choice about banks taking the land they farmed, though creditors and courts—not simply banks—were the main cause.

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