Question

what event surrounding shays’s rebellion occurred first?
○ the national government was unable to raise forces to put down shays’s rebellion.
○ congress agreed to call a meeting \for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation.\
○ shays’s supporters were elected to the massachusetts legislature. the massachusetts legislature repealed the taxes and stopped paying its debts.
○ the american revolution left states deeply in debt.

Explanation:

To determine the first event surrounding Shays’s Rebellion, we analyze the timeline: The American Revolution (ending in 1783) left states, including Massachusetts, deeply in debt. This debt crisis (taxes to pay debts, economic hardship for farmers like Shays’s supporters) led to the rebellion. The national government’s inability to raise forces and the later Constitutional Convention - related events (Congress calling a meeting) happened after the debt from the Revolution. Shays’s supporters being elected and legislative actions were responses to the rebellion or the debt crisis, which stemmed from the Revolution’s debt. So the American Revolution’s debt was the foundational, first event here.

Answer:

The American Revolution left states deeply in debt.