Shays's Rebellion consisted of
A) farmers trying to prevent foreclosure on their property for high taxes levied to finance the state's wartime debt.
B) Massachusetts residents protesting New Hampshire's import tax on their state's products.
C) Bostonians throwing British tea into Boston Harbor.
D) Massachusetts residents protesting the national government's tax on liquor and a tax on voting rights.
E) tobacco farmers protesting tariffs on their crops.
A
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