Our textbook likens Shays's Rebellion to colonial resistance to the Stamp Act, but it is equally possible to compare Shays's Rebellion to the North Carolina Regulator movement of the 1760s and1770s. How do they compare-in what ways were they similar, and in what ways different? Consider the economic and other conditions of the times and of the people who participated in each rebellion, and consider the governments each group was rebelling against: in each case, what were conditions
like, what was happening to these people, which groups or interests in society was each government most responsive to and why? How was each situation resolved?