Rob McDonald, Professor of History at West Point, Details Shays' Rebellion

In this http://motorhomediaries.com video, Ron McDonald, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point gives an informative overview of Shays' Rebellion - an armed conflict between farmers in central and western Massachusetts and militia raised at the governor's behest to prevent the closure of courthouses, which were seizing the farmers land for unpaid debts.

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[EBanonymous]

2:30

The farmers were war veterans who wren't paid in cash; those certificates were useless. The govt also refused to print paper money so they couldn't pay - suprise

The Mass Constitution of 1780 raised voting qualifications & only very wealthy could be in legislature, so the farmers weren't represented

The Riot Act by Sam Adams was indefinite jail & suspended habeaus corpus

Those were the things the revolution fought against; the farmers property & money was stolen. West Point? figures..

[ptowndrummr]

dudes red as heeeeeeelllllllll...

[jaimesandoval1988]

The very very similar situation we are in just interchange thaeparties.

[xkjdhdglksh]

So, Shay's rebellion should teach us that mortgages and banks are BAD. The Government (or the FED) can change the value of money at will (and they DO) so ALL contracts valued in U.S. dollars are VERY risky things.

[castleahh]

good video. very informative on the basis of what shay's rebellion was.