Read the excerpt from a letter that Henry Knox, a general in the American Revolution, wrote to George Washington about Shays’s Rebellion.

This dreadful situation has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England—They start as from a dream, and ask what has been the Cause of our delusion? What is to afford us security against the violence of lawless men? Our government must be braced, changed, or altered to secure our lives and property. We imagined that the mildness of our government and the virtue of the people were so correspondent, that we were not as other nations requiring brutal force to support the laws—But we find that we are men, actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal and that we must have a government proper and adequate to him.

–Henry Knox, letter to George Washington, October 23, 1786

How does this letter illustrate the result of Shays’s Rebellion?

It shows that the government was strong enough to stop the rebellion.
It shows that the men fighting in the rebellion were obeying the law.
It shows that people wanted a stronger central government after the rebellion.
It shows that people were against forming a stronger central government after the rebellion.