The Whiskey Rebellion started in 1791 and occured because farmers were upset by the additional taxes put on Whiskey during George Washington's presidency. Because of the powers of the new United States Constitution (which were much stronger than those of the previous Afticles of Confederation) the rebellion was crushed. This showed the strength of the new strong federal government. It caused the Washington administration to be viewed as a success. It upped the public approval for the new government. It demonstrated the ablility and willingness of the government to quell violent uprsings in violent ways.
The federal whiskey tax produced the whiskey rebellion.
What was unfair about the whiskey rebellion was that the western farmers from Pennsylvania were taxed on whiskey but the other farmers were not!
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The whiskey rebellion was a victory for the federal government because it was one of the first test of federal authority in the United States history. It was also a commitment to the constitutional rule of law.
George Washington did react to the whiskey rebellion by sending many federal soldiers who crushed the rebellion.
Whiskey Rebellion - 1791-1794 Jay's Treaty - November 1794
The whiskey rebellion happened because George Washington had a national debt and taxed people on the whiskey to pay the debt.
The whiskey rebellion occurred twice in early US history. The first occurrence was a tax that Britain used to charge the colonies for alcoholic beverages. The second time the whiskey rebellion occurred before prohibition was when the new colonies began charging a luxury tax to distilled spirits to pay for the revolutionary war.
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Whiskey rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion began in the western part of Pennsylvania in 1794.It ended when President Washington led 13,000 men in a Federal militia to quell the uprising, in October 1794.
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