The Rebellion The person that was chosen to lead the rebellion was Daniel Shays. ... During the War he fought in such key battles as the Battle of Lexington, Bunker Hill and Saratoga. ... After the War he held a political office in Pelham, Massachusetts but during the beginning of the rebellion his sympathies were with the farmers which is what brought him into the fight.7 The farmers decided that the person who should lead them into rebellion against their own government had to, in the words of a farmer, "Be a firm leader and a man the is capable of keeping his head in case of emergency ...

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Jacksonian Democrats DBQ In the 1820-1840 period, Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as guardians of the Constitution. Meaning that they felt that they were true followers of the ideals of the Constitution, including political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportun...

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President Jackson and the Jacksonian Democrats proved that they wanted to be guardians of the government, but in reality, showed short in key areas. ... This decision angered many people, and in Daniel Webster's reply to President Jackson's veto(Doc. ...

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Daniel Webster said of slavery that, "it will be found, sir, that there was no great diversity of opinion between the North and the South upon the subject of slavery; and it will be found that both parts of the country held it equally an evil- a moral and political evil"(Webster 249). ... This law was key because now the United States had officially recognized that the spread of slavery needed to stop. ...

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