Question

Shays's Rebellion demonstrated that the Articles of Confederation:

A. prevented the U.S. government from handling crises within the
country
B. had given the U.S. government too much control over the states.
C. made it too easy for the U.S. government to tax poor citizens.
D. made the U.S. government overly focused on building a strong
military

Answer 1

A. prevented the U.S. government from handling crises within the country.

The articles took away many of the powers that the federal government previously had to avoid seeming tyrannical, however this backfired. The federal government couldn’t tax or provide soldiers. The lack of taxation left the government with no money and no way to pay back the veterans from the revolution, making them angry and leading to the revolution.