After the Revolutionary War was won, Daniel Shays led a thousand-strong rebellion of disgruntled farmers who almost plunged the new nation of the United States into civil war in Massachusetts, #OnThisDay January 25, 1787. Although defeated, their actions led to a reassessment of values that informed the creation of the US Constitution. They called themselves ‘Regulators’ - and, by that moniker, they succeeded. A generous grant from Americana Corner and the American Battlefield Protection Program