{"id":6884,"date":"2026-08-29T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:22:34","slug":"shays-rebellion-began-in-1786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6884","title":{"rendered":"Shays\u2019 Rebellion Began in 1786"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shays\u2019 Rebellion started formally in 1786.<\/strong> Daniel Shays and other farmers in central Massachusetts were revolting against high taxes and debt policies. At that time if people could not pay their debts, they were put in prison. The resistance was broken around February 1787, and the last vestiges concluded in June 1787. Some experts believe that Shays\u2019 Rebellion influenced members of the Constitutional Convention. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/library\/digitalhistory\/digital-encyclopedia\/article\/shays-rebellion\/\">Shays&#8217; Rebellion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shays\u2019 Rebellion started formally in 1786. Daniel Shays and other farmers in central Massachusetts were revolting against high taxes and debt policies. At that time if people could not pay their debts, they were put in prison. The resistance was broken around February 1787, and the last vestiges concluded in June 1787. Some experts believe <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6884' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5817,5798,198,1363,158,1362],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5817","tag-august-29","tag-constitutional-convention","tag-daniel-shays","tag-massachusetts","tag-shays-rebellion","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23550,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/23550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}