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This page provides an overview of the Shays' Rebellion site and links to all its pages.
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Historic Scenes
- Prologue: A Revolutionary People
- War's End: Promises of the Revolution
- Boom and Bust: Post-war America
- Petition and Protest: "our property is torn from us"
- A Bloody Encounter: "the body of the people assembled in arms"
- Taking the Oath: Punishment and Appeasement
- Making a Nation: The Philadelphia Convention
- Epilogue: Our Debt to Shays
People
Bringing History to Life: The People of Shays' Rebellion
- Abigail Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Elihu Ashley
- James Bowdoin
- Seth Catlin
- John Chaloner
- Luke Day
- Thomas Foster
- Benjamin Franklin
- Elbridge Gerry
- Alexander Hamilton
- John Hancock
- Mary Harvey
- Moses Harvey
- Justin Hitchcock
- David Hoyt, Jr.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Jonathan Judd
- Rufus King
- Henry Knox
- Benjamin Lincoln
- James Madison
- Hugh Maxwell
- Hugh McClellan
- Henry McCulloch
- Jason Parmenter
- Eli Parsons
- Elizabeth Porter Phelps
- Caleb Phillips
- Moses Sash
- Daniel Shays
- William Shepard
- Joseph Stebbins
- William Stevens
- Caleb Strong
- George Washington
- Agrippa Wells
- Reuben Wells
- John Williams
Artifacts and Documents: Search and Browse
- Browse: Objects and Clothing
- Browse: Books, Newspapers and Periodicals
- Browse: Military Items
- Browse: Proclamations, Petitions, Resolutions and Court Proceedings
- Browse: Diaries and Correspondence
- Browse: All Else
Themes and Essays
- Getting By & Getting Ahead
- Paper Currency— When to Take It, When to Let It Go?
- Profitable Peace?
- "The Labyrinth of Debt"
- "The Most Distressing Situation"
- Fiscal Relief
- The Federal Solution
- We the People
- A Standing Army
- In Debt to the World
- Consititutional Resistance?
- "the people assembled in arms"
- Up Close: Taking the Oath
- We the States or We the People?
- The Wider World
- American Cincinnatus
- Ginseng and Salt Cod
- "Great tumults and contentions"
- Reporting a Bloody Encounter
- Mercy or Retribution?
- The Republican Experiment — Fatally Flawed?
- Everyday Life
- A People's Army
- Adding Up
- Divided Communities
- Militia Men and Regulators: Who was at the Arsenal?
- Oath or Fight?
- Communities United, Communities Divided
Maps
- Historic Maps
- Map of the Springfield Arsenal, 1801
- Massachusetts in 1795 by Samuel Lewis
- "Map Of The Four New England States" by Norman and Coles
- Map of Troop Movements During Shays' Rebellion
- Interactive Maps
Timeline
Songs and Music
- Polite and Tavern Music
- Address to the Ladies
- Allemande Swiss
- Juice of Barley
- Over the Hills and Far away
- Rural Felicity
- Hunt the Squirrel
- Successful Campaign
- Sacred Music
- Martial Music
For Teachers
- A Note to Teachers
- Study Guide
- Lesson 1: Prologue: A Revolutionary People
- Lesson 2: War's End: Promises of the Revolution
- Lesson 3: Boom & Bust: Post-War America
- Lesson 4: Petition & Protest: "our property is torn from us"
- Lesson 5: A Bloody Encounter: "the body of the people assembled in arms"
- Lesson 6: Taking the Oath: Punishment & Appeasement
- Lesson 7: Making a Nation: The Philadelphia Convention
- Lesson 8: Epilogue: Our Debt to Shays
- Additional Resources