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Speaker: Professor Charles Postel link
California State University, Sacramento

"The Roots of Protest in America,
1787-1794" (Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion)

Questions and comments

Shay’s Rebellion

• “Shay’s Rebellion and the Making of a Nation,” a website of Springfield Technical Community College
  “Three years after the American Revolution ended, thousands of Massachusetts citizens took up arms against their new state government. This site tells the story of Shays' Rebellion, and a period in our nation's founding when the survival of the republican experiment in government was neither destined nor assured.”
  http://www.shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/
  
  
• Massachusetts Governor Bowdoin issued this proclamation after Regulators had kept the Court of Common Pleas in Northampton from opening on August 29, 1786.
  http://www.shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/artifact.do?shortName=broadside_jb7nov86
  
  
• This list of grievances was sent to the Hampshire Gazette by Daniel Gray of Pelham.
  Daniel Gray was the richest man in Pelham and was an ardent supporter of the Regulators. Gray lists the grievances which he felt were the causes of the rebellion.
  http://www.shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/artifact.do?shortName=gazette_dg27dec86

The Whiskey Rebellion

• Proclamation by George Washington commanding all “insurgents” to “disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes.” August 7, 1794.
  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/gwproc03.asp
  
  
• “Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion” – from Edsitement (National Endowment for the Humanities)
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=311
  Introduction – “This lesson plan examines a critical episode in George Washington's second administration, when federal efforts to collect an excise tax on liquor sparked armed resistance in the frontier communities of western Pennsylvania. (more information)