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What did Shays' Rebellion demonstrate to the elite class and why were Shays and others mad?

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Shays’ Rebellion demonstrated the high degree of internal conflict lurking beneath the surface of post-Revolutionary life as for why they were mad was because the state government was making farmers pay high taxes. If they could not pay these taxes, they would be thrown in jail, and they could lose their farms. They asked the government to stop.

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