Monday, July 7, 2014

What issues did Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion in common with the American Revolution?

Both Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion happened
after the US became independent.  Therefore, I have edited your question to reflect what
I think the correct question must be.


Shays's Rebellion and
especially the Whiskey Rebellion were centered around issues that had come up in the
time before the Revolution.  Shays's Rebellion was about people wanting the government
to be responsive to their needs.  The revolution was partially about that.  The Whiskey
Rebellion, like the American Revolution, had to do with taxes imposed by a central
government on people in a state (or colony).  The American colonists did not want to be
taxed by the central government in England.  The rebels in the Whiskey Rebellion did not
want to be taxed by the central government which was then centered in
Philadelphia.


In these ways, Shays's Rebellion and the
Whiskey Rebellion occurred because some Americans felt that the governments after
independence were doing things similar to what the British had done to make the
colonists angry before the American Revolution.

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