Constitutional Era & Federal Era
Constitutional Era & Federal Era Facts
Shay Rebellion
Shay Rebellion is a series of protest in 1786 to 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
Shay Rebellion
The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, Daniel Shays of Massachusetts, a former captain in the Continental army.
Shay Rebellion
The rebellion was most serious in Massachusetts, where bad harvests, economic depression, and high taxes threatened farmers with the loss of their farms.
Samuel Adems of Shay Rebellion
Samuel Adams believed that "the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death."
Abigail Adems of Shay Rebellion
Abigail Adams was in England, far from her Massachusetts home, when news of Shays' Rebellion reached her.
Dr. Elihu Ashley of Shay Rebellion
Dr. Elihu Ashley was a successful physician from Deerfield. The tumultuous popular protest of the 1770s taught him to view such activities and the people who joined them as a dangerous threat to law and order.
Whiskey Rebellion
President George Washington personally led troops to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. He remains the only sitting president to go into battle.
Whiskey Rebellion
When the Whiskey Rebellion ended, only two rebels were convicted of treason. President Washington pardoned both.
Whiskey Rebellion
The excise tax, a tax on alcohol, sparked the Whiskey Rebellion. Whiskey was sometimes used for trading in the early days of the United States, which helped to make this tax unpopular.
Henry Lee
Apart of the Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton
Apart of the Rebellion
President George Washington
Apart of the Rebellion
XYZ Affair
Was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams
XYZ Affair
Involved a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
XYZ Affair
French diplomats demanded a bribe from the Americans before agreeing to talk to them
Adams substitutes XYZ as the names of the french diplomats and publishes the story