How did shays's rebellion highlight major problems with the articles of confederation?
a. by ending the rebellion, the strong central government angered the local state government.
b. the rebellion showed that local farmers needed to defend themselves against the government.
c. a prospering massachusetts showed that a strong central government was not needed.
d. state governments had difficulties fixing their economies and raising militias for defense.

The correct answer is D) State governments had difficulties fixing their economies and raising militias for defense.

Shays's Rebellion highlighted major problems with the Articles of Confederation in that State governments had difficulties fixing their economies and raising militias for defense.

Daniel Shay organized a rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786 in Boston. Most of the rebels were former soldiers that fought in the Revolutionary War. They were former farmers that were living tough economic conditions and did not have money to pay their debts. It also was combined with the idea of Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin to raise taxes. The rebels attacked public buildings and courts and later the conflict became a military confrontation with the government. Shays's Rebellion highlighted major problems with the Articles of Confederation in that State governments had difficulties fixing their economies and raising militias for defense.

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”