Shay’s rebellion showed leader of the US that the Articles of Confederation was not strong enough because they were not able to stop the rebellion from happening, or prevent it from doing damage. The national government at the time was very weak and it was extremely difficult to get any peace keeping force across state lines due to interstate diplomacy.
Referring to this excerpt: <span>"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
I believe the answer is:
</span><span>Many years ago people came together to form a nation, and now a war takes place there
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The first two sentence of the excerpt Tell the story about how the united states was intially formed by the founding father. It also mentioned the story about how the effort of the founding father was almost wasted due to the civil war that take place in the country.