<P> Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts (mostly in and around Springfield) during 1786 and 1787 . Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices . In 1787, the rebels marched on the United States' Armory at Springfield in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government . </P> <P> The rebellion took place in a political climate where reform of the country's governing document, the Articles of Confederation, was widely seen as necessary . The events of the rebellion served as a catalyst for the calling of the U.S. Constitutional Convention, and ultimately the shape of the new government . </P> <P> The shock of Shays' Rebellion drew retired General George Washington back into public life, leading to his two terms as the United States' first President . The exact nature and consequence of the rebellion's influence on the content of the Constitution and the ratification debates continues to be a subject of historical discussion and debate . </P> <P> In the rural parts of New England, particularly in the hill - towns of central and western Massachusetts, the economy during the American Revolutionary War had been one of little more than subsistence agriculture . Some residents in these areas had little in the way of assets beyond their land and bartered with one another for goods or services . In lean times, farmers might obtain goods on credit from suppliers in local market towns who would be paid when times were better . </P>

How did shay's rebellion lead to the reform of the articles of confederation
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