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Shays' Rebellion - George Washington's Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
Shays' Rebellion - George Washington's Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
In order to frame Shay's rebellion in an intelligible context when we teach it - we can choose Washington's perspective. Instead of retiring to a peaceful life, he was pulled into the fears of anarchy raised by Shay's, the inability of the national government to combat it, and the Constitutional Convention called to eliminate this weakness. At the very least - pull quotes from his letters to the commander on the scene "Have your people gone mad?"
#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation#primary source
·shaysrebellion.stcc.edu·
Shays' Rebellion - George Washington's Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
Younger students might get a kick out of țhe fact the founding fathers had their own "laptops". This Smithsonian article explains the 18th-century writing box, also known as a dispatch case, portable desk and writing case, would have been an important object for the traveling Founding Father to own. Like the laptops and mobile devices of today, a writing box provided its owner a base from which to communicate, even when on the move.
#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation
·smithsonianmag.com·
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian
Well-Regulated Militias - BackStory with the American History Guys
Well-Regulated Militias - BackStory with the American History Guys
Teachers who want to show students connections across time can choose almost any "Back Story" podcast broadcast from their archives. This is a great example - there is a section of this show describing Shay's Rebellion and another on the Black Panthers. Each are separate incidences of armed resistance.
#5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation
·backstoryradio.org·
Well-Regulated Militias - BackStory with the American History Guys
To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787
To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787
This is James Madison telling Thomas Jefferson, and history teachers in the 21st century what went on in the Constitutional Convention. Notice his statement that it was the fear of popularly elected state legislatures that had more to do with the calling of a Constitutional Convention than the failures of the Articles of Confederation. US History Instructional materials teach the opposite
The mutability of the laws of the States is found to be a serious evil. The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these sources<a class="ptr" id="TSJN-01-12-0276-fn-0021-ptr" href="#TSJN-01-12-0276-fn-0021" title="jump to note 21">21</a> contributed more to that uneasiness which produced the Convention, and prepared the public mind for a general reform, than those which accrued to our national character and interest from the inadequacy of the Confederation to its immediate objects.
Those who contend for a simple Democracy, or a pure republic, actuated by the sense <a id="TSJN-01-12-02-pb-0277"></a> of the majority, and operating within narrow limits, assume or suppose a case which is altogether fictitious.
Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.
#5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#myth canon#primary source
·founders.archives.gov·
To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787
Shays' Rebellion - From Revolution to Constitution
Shays' Rebellion - From Revolution to Constitution
Shays's Rebellion makes it into almost every US History and Civics course, but how often are the causes reduced to a less than ten word bullet point? This site provides much more of the story, fundamentally changing our understanding of him, the people with him and the event itself.
#5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation#8th Grade Unit 3: The Constitution#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation
·shaysrebellion.stcc.edu·
Shays' Rebellion - From Revolution to Constitution