4. mobocracy
- growing debts, state taxes, courts
- veteran Daniel Shays in MA sued for debt of $12 in 1784, sold his sword given him by Lafayette at Saratoga
- Capt. Job Shattuck, Lt. Nathan Smith
- 1500 closed Northampton courts
- Henry Knox sent 700 fed. troops to join 4000 state militia under Gen. Benj. Lincoln
- Shays defeated at Springfield arsenal Jan. 1787
- John Hancock elected gov. in April, pardoned dozen leaders
- capitals moved to Springfield, Harrisburg, Richmond
- 7 states issued paper money 1785-86
- Rhode Island issued paper money 1786, refused by merchants, riots against merchants
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