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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in the western area of Massachusetts in protest to a debt catastrophe among the citizenry and their government's rising efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. The fight was fought mostly in and around the city of Springfield, happening during the years of both 1786 and 1787. The rebellion exposed the weaknesses/vulnerable areas of the Articles of Confederation. When the central government started getting weaker and couldn't put down/stop the rebellion, the first stirrings of federalism began to gather strength/power. The British was not familiar with current events and the Declaration, so they continued to send groups of troops to contain and reinforce the already powerful rebellion.
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