It proved the US Government would use violence against its own people to get them to follow the rules.
the federalists proved that they had power by stopping the rebellion.
in 1794 president Washington sent nearly 15,000 troops to crush the whiskey rebellion. Sebastian Aguirre
To prove that the new national government was strong.
George Washington
The quashing of the whiskey rebellion showed that the US federal government was able and had the resolve to enforce its laws.
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!
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.
Definition of shays rebellion?
Whiskey rebellion