Otherwise known as Shays’ Rebellion. They were a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. Although farmers rebelled in states from New Hampshire to South Carolina, but the rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts, where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms. The rebellion is named after its leader, Daniel Shays of Massachusetts.
