During the late 1700¡¯s, farmers in Massachusetts experienced hard times. After the war, Britain refused to help the United States with trade, leaving the farmers poor. The American government did nothing to help these farmers. If fact, they actually hurt the farmers even more when they began over taxing, taking their farms away from them because the farmers couldn¡¯t pay their debts and sending them to prison. These treatments resulted in a non-violent uprising of the farmers, Shay¡¯s Rebellion, led by a war veteran, Daniel Shay. Shay¡¯s Rebellion showed the government that the people were losing morale and the current government¡¯s laws were not effective. This caused them to consider a change in the way national government was ran. So although the
The final and longest lasting change from the convention was the establishment of the Electoral Vote. This gave each state a certain amount of votes for president, depending on the amount of people in each state. This is still in place today and still is debated over.
rebellion ended discouragingly with the capture of Shay and his men, their efforts resulted in major changes in the United States.
The immediate and most direct effect was the organization of delegates to revise the Articles of Confederation. All of the newly founded states except Rhode Island gathered into a small room in Philadelphia to make changes to the Articles that were in place. The debate was whether the government should have power or control over states. Many revisions were made
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