This 1786 event that pitted western Massachusetts farmers and veterans against eastern Massachusetts bankers and merchants prompted some politicians to consider the need for a stronger federal government in order to prevent a nation of mob rule.

Shays’s Rebellion

Explanation:

Shays’s Rebellion was a violent insurrection, composed mostly of veterans from the Revolutionary War that had turned to farm work, against Massachusetts´ economic policies that made them fall into debt and property foreclosure. Given the denial of the legislature, full of Eastern bankers and merchants, to enact policies to help them, the rebellion started and ended up revealing the vulnerability of the government following the Articles of Confederation, and the need to strengthen the federal government to avoid situations like that.