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This Day in Mr. Bruce's History Bell Work

 What We Did In Class Today's class begun to expose the root causes of Shays' Rebellion. Using the textbook's dry and fluffy exposition of the events, we added parts of a video titled "Money and Banking 101" created by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. It allowed us to understand money and inflation, and then we considered what this meant for the situation of farmers in Massachusetts in the 1780s. There are a few questions that are guiding us, one for today and the other for tomorrow:  Notes
 * What is the cost of leading a revolution or rebellion to overthrow the government?
 * How would former revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and John Hancock, respond to this rebellion?

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