<p>Right, I think that the key word will be "overthrow," if that was indeed the correct answer. The College Board will claim that they never really meant to overthrow the government and just wanted to improve their financial state. Could go either way. </p>
<p>Kind of long, but I think this outlines it pretty well, especially as to why they stole federal arms.</p>
<p>"The citizens outlined their own proposals to remedy the situation and called for a reduction in taxes and court fees and the issuance of paper money. Their proposals were largely ignored.</p>
<p>The time for peaceful resolution of the situation had come to an end. In August 1786, a mob</p>
<p>1,500 people strong, armed with guns and swords, seized the county courthouse at Northhampton and forced the court to adjourn sine dine. Mobs prevented the courts at Springfield and Concord from meeting and in Great Barrington abused the judges and released prisoners. Painfully aware that anarchy could grip the state and spread throughout the country, Governor James Bowdoin began developing a plan for enlisting the aid of federal troops. Violence was avoided in Worcester when the rebels put their energies towards drafting a legislative resolution calling for the redress of their grievances. The</p>
<p>governor and others knew they could not count on this course of action becoming commonplace. The Hampshire County Court was scheduled to meet in Springfield in January. In addition to preventing the meeting of the court, Shays also hoped to seize the federal arsenal as weapons and supplies were running low. The attack was to begin on January 25th."</p>
<p>Bleh, the overthrow question really sucked. I mean yeah, they WOULD want more paper money since inflation helps paying off the debt, but they DID want to shut down governmental systems. I chose the overthrow option only because I don't recall directly reading they wanted more $.</p>
<p>That reminds me of another question. What did the supply-line economics consist of? Or something like that.</p>
<p>Supply-side economics did not include elimination of taxes on the poorer classes, if that's what you're asking.</p>
<p>I did a search in Google Books and found a number of sources that said that the rebels DID intend to overthrow the MA government. I really don't know what to believe. But it's just one question, after all, I guess. I already have many (MANY) others wrong anyway.</p>
<p>I had put that they didn't want to overthrow the government, simply because it was the odd one out- all the other answers delt with money, except that one. Suffice to say I am not that familiar w/ Shay's Rebeliion. :)</p>
<p>Even though both are true, I think that the "overthrow" option is arbitrary. It is possibility that the rebels intended to completely overtake the government, but you can't really dispute the fact that they wanted more money in circulation.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember that question that listed all the political parties as choices? I think the options were Republicans, Federalists, Whigs and two others. It's bugging me because I feel like I tripped up on that one but can't remember what was asked.</p>
<p>Which one of these parties gained a lot of strength after election of 1854 or something in 1854. I believe that was republicans. There was another one that gave a paragraph talking about immigration and asked which party stood for whatever point the paragraph cited (I think), and I remember A was free soilers, and the other 4 were some other parties.</p>
<p>The second one that you mentioned was the Know Nothings if I remember correctly. If the first one was in fact Republicans, then I shouldn't have guessed, didn't really have a clue.</p>
<p>Do you remember the womens circus quote? We were debating it yesterday and settled on it being a quote about the double standard, but we weren't sure in the end.</p>
<p>Yeah Know Nothings, whatever one was A thats what I put. Republican party was founded in 1854, Lincoln became president in 1960, so it makes sense. However another one of the choice I believe were the free soilers, which also gained ground during that time so Im not sure.</p>
<p>EDIT: Im pretty sure that was the double standard, the circus one.</p>
<p>The one asking about the party as a force after 1854 was Republicans. The one asking about which party would have expressed nativist sentiments was the Know-Nothings.</p>