Shays’s Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated that?
a. land distribution policies were out of date.
b. the economic preponderance of the East was bitterly resented by those in the West.
c. the ex-soldiers of the Continental army were unhappy.
d. the present government was unable to protect property rights.
e. the Indians were causing a problem in the West.
More Questions From This User See All
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
D. the present government was unable to protect property rights.
Shays's Rebellion was an armed insurrection by farmers in W Massachusetts against the state government. Debt-ridden farmers, struck by the economic depression that followed the American Revolution, petitioned the state senate to issue paper money and to halt foreclosure of mortgages on their property and their own imprisonment for debt as a result of high land taxes. Sentiment was particularly high against the commercial interests who controlled the state senate in Boston, and the lawyers who hastened the farmers' bankruptcy by their exorbitant fees for litigation. When the state senate failed to undertake reform, armed insurgents in the Berkshire Hills and the Connecticut valley, under the leadership of Daniel Shays.
Sorry yahoo answers ain't gonna help you learn why.
b
is the closest.