Why did Shay's rebellion worry many Americans?
Freedomf has got some good info there... ...it really was a matter of good common sense...if ANY rebellion could not be put down within the new nation, what might the future hold except for chaos... The nation had to be capable of providing for the protection of its people, peace, and prosperity. If chaos were to reign, then the government would be proved a failure. The eyes of the world were on the new fledgling democracy. .
What did most American call for establishing following Shay's Rebellion?
d. a stronger central government There was a lack of an institutional response to the uprising, which energized calls to reevaluate the Articles of Confederation and gave strong impetus to the Philadelphia Convention.
Was the American Civil War a revolution?
By any reasonable definition (there are some unreasonable ones in the other answers) the American Civil War was an attempt at a revolution. It failed, but it was certainly like many other events we have historlically called a "revolution", including the American Revolution and the Nigerian Civil War during which the attempt to create a new nation, Biafra, failed. In each of these cases a portion of the population in a given geographic area (for the ACW, the American South) decided, through their elected representatives, to create a new nation from a portion of the existing one, by seditious and traitorous rebellion/revolution against their legal governments. For the American Revolution, the colonists who supported the revolution organized a central government (the Continental Congress) which created armies and a navy (of sorts) and waged war against the troops brought against them by the ruling government of Great Britain. With help from the French, and geography, that effort was successful, although many residents of the original colonies were not in favor of this separation (so some historians have called this the first ACW). For the Confederacy, the various state governments, through their existing legislatures or through special conventions, declared secession and independence, then organized a central government with laws, a Congress, and Executive, etc and raised armies and some sort of a navy. They lost a bloody war to the Federal government against which they revolted. In Nigeria, a people who felt persecuted on religious and ethnic grounds as well as economic grounds (they had oil, the government took it and didn't give them what they thought of as adequate compensation) organized a rebel government and an army and fought for their independence; they lost too.This is clearly different from the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917-18, but those were (at least from the surface view) "popular revolutions" in which a large portion of the citizenry overthrew the entire government and replaced it with a new one in more or less the same territorial boundaries. This is very different from the American Revolution or the ACW, but that doesn't mean the ACW wasn't an attempted revolution.
How did Shays ' Rebellion lead to the formation of the Consistuition?
Shay's rebellion was the end of Democracy in America. The writers of the US Constitution based it on the Roman Empire. it was merely the latest of many armes insurgencies that the nationmal governmen thad no power under the Articles of Confederation to throw the army at. So the question arose, can a government survive if it cannot defend itself against armed insurrection? Answer:No.
How did shays rebellion lead to the constitution?
The Articles of Confederation outlawed taxation, which made the government quite poor. Shay became angry and lead a rebellion of soldiers that had fought in the American Revolutions and they demanded their pay, which the government could not supply him. When Washington heard about this incident, he took it as a personal insult. He decided that this form of government would not work, and he called for the Constitution to be made.
In Star Wars, why are the rebels rebelling?
Shortly after Palpatine's rise to power everything reminiscent of the Republic was extinguished. Palpatine engaged in purges of his political opponents. Any officers who held anti-imperial sentiments were arrested and executed by Admiral Mulleen under Palpatine's orders. In addition, many formerly separatist worlds had the entirety of their assets confiscated by Finance Minister Gahg under Palpatine's orders.The establishment of the Empire saw the largest military accumulation in the galaxy's history. A permanent class of Moffs was established to govern the systems. The Empire invaded the middle and outer rims of the galaxy and conquered 95 planets. A coup was attempted against Palpatine, but failed.Palpatine came to see the Caamasi species as a threat to his rule and ordered the devastation of their home world, scattering them across the galaxy. The entire planet was turned into a poisonous wasteland. In 18 BBY, Palpatine ordered the construction of a giant weapon called the Eye of Palpatine to destroy a Jedi enclave on Belsavis. It was unsuccessful.This same year there were peaceful protests against the Empire on the planet Ghorman. With implied permission from Palpatine, Wilhuff Tarkin landed his ship on top of the protesters, killing many. It came to be known as the Ghorman Massacre.There were additional Jedi rebellions leading up to 1 BBY. They attempted to organize on Kashyyk, which led to the planet being occupied by the Empire. The Jedi were annihilated in ensuing battles.Recognizing the nature of the Empire and Palpatine, Bail Organa of Alderaan, Garm Bel Iblis of Corellia, and Mon Mothma of Chandrilla, among others, were conspiring to start a grand rebellion against the Empire. In order to draw out the resistance, Palpatine had Vader's apprentice Galen Marek rally the rebels. With Galen they signed the Corellian Treaty, forming the Alliance to Restore the Republic. They were arrested, but Marek betrayed his masters and turned to the light side, sacrificing his life to protect them. His family crest became the symbol of the Rebel Alliance.In response to the formation of the alliance, Palpatine declared a state of emergency and disbanded the Imperial Senate, formerly the Galactic Senate. Rather than using the legitimacy of the former Republic to justify his rule, Palpatine would thenceforth rule through pure fear, which was the purpose of the Death Star.Galactic Empire
How did shays rebellion lead to the constitutional convention in philadelphia?
When drafting the Articles of Confederation, the 13 states intended the central government to be weak. They succeeded in creating a weak central governemnt which soon led to problems. Besides financial and foreign problems under the Articles, domestic issues were coming to a head. In 1786, Captain Daniel Shays, a Massachusetts farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, led an uprising against high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money. The rebels stopped the collection of taxes and forced the closing of debtors' courts. This was not the only event that spured the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, but it did play a role. Financial, Foreign and Domestic problems magnified the weakness of the central governement and prompted the Annapolis Convention to be held in Maryland in 1786 to review what could be done about the country's inability to overcome critical problems. Only five states sent delegates to the meeting at Annapolis. After discussing ways to improve these problems, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton persuaded the others that another convention should be held in Philadelphia for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation.