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Shays Rebellion to Constitution time

Shays Rebellion to Constitution time. From there to here and back again, a hobbits errrr , a nations tale. Shays Rebellion. What was it? : A rebellion against the government of Massachusetts When?: August, 1786 through July, 1787 Who were the main players?:

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Shays Rebellion to Constitution time

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  1. Shays Rebellion to Constitution time From there to here and back again, a hobbits errrr, a nations tale.

  2. Shays Rebellion • What was it? : A rebellion against the government of Massachusetts • When?: August, 1786 through July, 1787 • Who were the main players?: • Daniel Shays Luke Day

  3. Shays Rebellion • Financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression • A credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency • Fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve the state's debt problems. • Simply put the government was playing fast and loose with veterans pay and then charging them taxes they couldn’t pay. WHY?

  4. More Why • Luke Day thrown into debtor prison for 70 days for failing to pay £34 ($55) • Courts flooded with cases involving less £1 • Job Shattuck: 1782 in Groton, organized residents there to physically prevent tax collectors • Feb. 3, 1783 A second, larger protest took place in Uxbridge, when a mob seized property that had been confiscated and returned it to its owners

  5. Lets Get Ready to Rumble! • September 19, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts indicted eleven leaders of the rebellion as "disorderly, riotous, and seditious persons • Day and others moved to block the court from meeting at Springfield on September 26 • Protests in Great Barrington, Concord, and Taunton were also successful in shutting courts down in September and October

  6. FINISH HIM! • Springfield Arsenal, January 25 through 28, 1787 • Militia of Shays and Parsons:1,500 men march on the Arsenal only to find Shepard's (government supported) militia waiting for them • Rebels scatter after 4 men die and 20 are wounded from grapeshot • General Ben Lincoln surprises the rebels by attacking their base on the night of February 3–4. Rebels scatter

  7. Massachusetts Disqualification Act, February 16, 1787 • Men were required to turn in their guns and take an oath of allegiance delivered by a Justice of the Peace. • Barred from serving as jurors, members of town or state government and certain professions for three years. • Lost their right to vote in town elections. • Would forfeit their pardons if they did not follow those rules. However, if they could prove their unfailing allegiance to the state on or after May 1, 1788, they would no longer be barred from being a juror, voting or being members of government or certain professions. • http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/index.html

  8. Articles of Confederation • Each state only had one vote in Congress, regardless of size. • Congress had not have the power to tax. • Congress did not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce. • There was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress. • There was no national court system. • Amendments to the Articles of Confederation required a unanimous vote. • Laws required a 9/13 majority to pass in Congress.

  9. Mr.Cornwell Gets Crazy With Markers

  10. Annapolis Convention (1786) • New York: Egbert Benson and Alexander Hamilton • New Jersey: Abraham Clark, William Houston, and James Schureman • Pennsylvania: TenchCoxe • Delaware: George Read, John Dickinson, and Richard Bassett • Virginia: Edmund Randolph, James Madison, Jr., and St. George Tucker

  11. James Madison • At Madison's instigation, a national convention was called in 1787. • Crucial in persuading George Washington to attend the convention • One of the first delegates to arrive, Madison wrote what became known as the Virginia Plan. • Virginia Plan was submitted at the opening of the convention, work of the convention quickly became to amend the Virginia Plan.

  12. Virginia Plan • Three Branches- legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislature chose people to serve in the executive and judicial branches. • Two houses (bicameral). The House of Representatives was elected by the people and the Senate was elected by the state legislatures. Both were represented proportionally. • The legislature could regulate interstate trade, strike down laws deemed unconstitutional and use armed forces to enforce laws.

  13. New Jersey Plan • Three Branches - legislative, executive, and judicial. The legislature appoints people to serve in the executive branch, and the executive branch selects the justices of the Supreme Court. • One house (unicameral). States would be represented equally, so all states had the same power. • The national government could levy taxes and import duties, regulate trade, and cases involving these powers would still be heard by state courts unless appealed to the federal judiciary.

  14. Great Compromise of 1787 • Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut delegation, created a compromise • Blended elements of the Virginia and New Jersey plans • Three-Fifths Compromise • Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

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