1. Shays' Rebellion
... pardoned right away. However, The Supreme Judicial Court soon sentenced fourteen of the rebellion's leaders, including Shays, to death for treason. They were later pardoned by the newly elected Governor John Hancock. Only two men were hanged for their part in the Rebellion.15 So after all the fighting is done was anything really solved? Rebellion and the Constitution The rebels ... in each state was different. This made interstate commerce very difficult and in turn creating a country of separate islands. At the Constitutional Congress both Northern and Southern delegates sought to bloc...
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- Grade Level: High School