Question 2 • 8th Grade US History & Geography A
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had no effective way to raise troops or directly address the uprising. It was unable to stop Shays’s Rebellion, which made many Americans worry that their national government was too weak to maintain order. The claim that Shays rebelled to protest the government’s weakness is not the central reason for this concern.
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