Wednesday, December 4, 2013

4Dec13

Specifically what was happening to the farmers in Western Massachusetts that spurred them to join Shays' Rebellion?

85 comments:

Charmel W. said...

The farmers were getting taxed and were losing their farms because of that.

Megan B said...

The government raised taxes and they were already poor

Mikey D said...

what was happening was they were going into debt and needed help thats why they joined the rebellion

Kameryn P. said...

the taxes were too much for the farmers to pay

Orion D. said...

The farmers were getting taxed a lot so they joined shay so they could fight back

Cierra D said...

The farmers were in economic depression and were against aggressive tax and dept collection

Zachary H. said...

They were getting taxed a lot and they couldn't pay it off

Carly T. said...

the farmers were being taxted more than they were suposed to be

Allie.S said...

the court decided to tax farmers which made them go bankrupt so they started protesting

Abby S. said...

The farmers wee being taxed more than they were supposed to

Madison . S said...

All the blood that was spreded

Jaimee H said...

The farmers were suffering from high debt when they tried to start new farms.

Jamaicab said...

Because all the blood that spurred

Karin D . G said...

Because of all the was spilled

Jalen P said...

The farmers joined the shays rebellion because the goverment was taking the farmers land because the farmers didn't have money to pay taxes

adrient said...

the farmers didnt have enough land

Dylan M said...

high taxes threatened farmers with the loss with the loss of their farms.the farmer need there land

Kyleigh F. said...

The government put taxes on everything causing the farmers to start losing their land.

Bryant h said...

They got there land taken away because they couldnt pay there rent

shamore m said...

the farms were getting as much food and all there food was gone and they didn't have money to buy things that they wanted

Gianna P said...

They were imprisoned when they couldn't pay their debt.

Anonymous said...

There land has been been taken away from the farmers because they refuse to pay taxes.That's why they decided to join shays rebellion.

Cameron C. said...

They Wasn't Making A Good Amount Of Money.

camdin. c said...

The government was taking the farmers land. They took the farmers land because the farmers wouldnt pay taxes

tyrez s said...

the farms were getting as food as they needed and they didnt have any money to get food and crops

Cody. S said...

There land has been been taken away from the farmers because they refuse to pay taxes.That's why they decided to join shays rebellion.

jada p. said...

The farmers had no money or land

Brandon B said...

Had to pay for there land

Erin R. said...

The farmers were decreasing

Nayana,W said...

Nayana,W

The farmers in Western Massachusetts got hert trying
to spurred shays' rebellion

alexandria s said...

they lost there land

Zaniah said...

They had to pay

Amber L said...

The farmers were decreasing.

Westen,m said...

There crops were getting destroyed

Dj,P said...

The Americans struggled

Keith c. said...

What happend to the farmers was that they where Changing the government.

David b said...

They lost their land

Rachael B. said...

The farmers lost all of there land because of the post war depression.

anna d said...

they were being sent to jail for not paying dues

Harleigh W said...

The farmers were going to jail for not paying there debts

Shealaw said...

Sheriffs seized farmers who couldn't pay their debts and took them to prison

brennan m said...

the government was collecting money from them to pay for debt.

Michael D said...

Collecting taxes

Blaine A said...

Idk

Derrick l said...

The shays reblion was joined by people because of the shortness of supplies and the goverment put people in dept who couldn't pay for it like farmers

Kylie H said...

the people are led to western massachusettes to go against local tax collectors

tyler s. said...

they had to pay high taxes

Caleb T said...

They had to pay high taxes and,they was mad about that.

Audrey R said...

The government took the farmers land because they couldn't pay their taxes.

Evelyn J. said...

Farmers didn't really have any land because it was taken because they couldn't pay their taxes.

Kemon E. said...

Kemon said

They lost there land

roy j said...

they had took land because they did not pay tax and there going to jail

Alainna apples said...

There land was being taken from them so the farmers got mad at the goverment and join the rebellion

hailey said...

the farms joined the rebellion because they had land and they could'nt pay all the taxes , and they were taking all the land away and they didnt like it.

michael b said...

they took them away they couldn't there deps

Kylie H said...

30 people were wounded and one person was killed

paul w said...

the farmers wanted to reform the state gov

Micah W. said...

They lost their land

Josiah P said...

They didnt have enough money to pay there land so the farmers took it.

Jacob,D said...

They raised the taxes

Allen,R. said...

They had to sell all their land because they didn't have any money that way they could get money from selling their land that they own

jamqued said...

they where geting tex on their own food

Areon A. said...

They taxed them in to bankruptcy

Elias M said...

They taxed them in bankruptcy

Amber J said...

The farmers were Harrased by leading merchants.

Brendin b said...

Didn't have any money so they sold their land?

Sam S. said...

the rebelion started because they were getting taxed way to much.

AngelaG said...

They couldnt sell their crops because they had to lay the levy some farmers land was being tooken away so that they could pay . They had no money to sell crops so they followed shay in the rebellion.

Anthony C. said...

they had to sell there land because they didnt have there money

Dezaray B. said...

they were being taxed to high

Devon .I said...

The farmers would lose thar land and thay would get mad.

Tamboer d said...

The farmers did not have the money to pay taxes so they lost their land instead

haleyk said...

they lost their farms.

braelynm said...

they grow stronger

Andre H. said...

taxed into bank robbed

Isaiah S. said...

They were collecting taxes and farmers often had to sell their land to pay for the taxes.

Destinee J said...

They were being taxed unfairly.I really don't know.

Alyssa G said...

they were being told they could not farm anymore by the goverment

aaron j said...

the goverment raised the taxes

Ronnelle B said...

the farmers were getting taxed and was losing there farms because of that

Kaitlynn O said...

They were being taxed unfairly.

Anonymous said...

States needed to be added in a organized way

MercedesF said...

the people who were in charger with the taxes messed ppl up by having to pay alot more money.

Drew M. said...

they have been taxed unfairly

Kieron ? said...

They raised the taxes and the farmers were poor and it mad them mad