Around the 1790s, people were fighting over the world's largest empire, and it was very expensive. Because the states had borrowed money for the war, many farmers around this time, were failing to pay the new taxes because of shortage of money. With the farmers failing to pay these new taxes, the states took away their farms. Even with Daniel Shays' leadership, he asked the states for time to pay the debts, but states continued to seize the farms.
After this, the farmers were now refusing to take this madness. The farmers came up with a plan in which they were going to defend themselves. They started to burn courthouses to the ground. But then, the states, for pay, sent soldiers to confront the farmers. When some soldiers shoot, four farmers lay dead.
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