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What did Washington do to stop Shays' Rebellion? A) He stopped taxing farmers. B) He forbade the sale of whiskey. C) He held a press conference with local papers and the whiskey boys. D) He marched 13,000 troops into Pennsylvania.

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D.) he marched 13,000 troops into Pennsylvania.
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D) He marched 13,000 troops into Pennsylvania.

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Shays' Rebellion

To re-pay its war loans Massachusetts increased taxes which highly affected the farmers when farmers were not able to pay the highly increased taxes their farmland was taken from them which was the only source of living.

Daniel shays a Massachusetts farmer and the former captain of the continental army led a farmer rebellion against the state's highly increased taxes on farmers.