alleryStart learning →Which grievance drove the Massachusetts farmers who followed Daniel Shays in 1786?
AA new tax placed on their exported grain
BDebt judgments and the loss of their farms
CThe closing of the port of Boston to trade
DThe refusal of the state to raise a militia
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Debt judgments and the loss of their farms
1. Farm produce glutted the market after the war and unrest centered on farmer debtors.
2. They wanted protection against foreclosure of mortgages and against imprisonment for debt.
3. Courts were clogged with suits for debt through 1786.
4. In the autumn mobs of farmers under Daniel Shays prevented the county courts from sitting.
5. The militia repulsed them, and only then did the legislature weigh the justice of their grievances.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section NEW CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT EMERGES_
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