The constitutional convention
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Project Purpose: Describe an event which was a turning point in U.S. history and explain why it was a turning point.
Thesis: Starting as an uprising against unfair property seizure in Massachusetts, Shays's Rebellion became a revolution of an even greater scale because it sparked in people a desire for a stronger federal government and increased the urgency for the gathering of the Constitutional Convention, an assembly that forever changed the frameworks of the United States government. |
Shays's Rebellion: A Shift in Federal Power
Kerri Lehmann and Carolyn Johnson Published April 29, 2014 APUSH Period 4 |