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What was the main idea of the religion people practiced during Shays’ Rebellion? plz help

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What was the religious world of Daniel Shays and what role if any did it play in the insurrection of 1786–87? Clear answers to these questions are not easy to obtain. Writers on the rebellion from George Richards Minot to Marion Starkey neglected religion altogether. In 1969 William G. McLoughlin opened a new line of inquiry with the claim that “the Separate-Baptists in western Massachusetts were prominent among the supporters of Daniel Shays.”1 A decade later David P. Szatmary replied that McLoughlin’s opinion “may be overstated” and interpreted religion as a variable that identified the Regulators but did not distinguish them from other citizens. “The militants were homogeneous in religious affiliation,” he wrote. “While some Baptists undeniably fought against government, most militants probably were Congregationalists....

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