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Shays' Rebellion
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Shays' Rebellion was a 1786–1787 uprising of indebted Massachusetts farmers that the confederation government proved unable to put down.
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The rebellion closed courts to stop foreclosures; a privately funded militia, not Congress, suppressed it.
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The alarm was structural — a center that cannot answer a rebellion has failed a basic test.