<h2>Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades; the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield <em><u>during 1786 and 1787</u></em>. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in a protest against economic and civil rights injustices. Shays was a farmhand from Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary</h2>
