The whiskey rebellion happened because George Washington had a national debt and taxed people on the whiskey to pay the debt.
Wiskey rebelion
happened in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1794
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax rebellion that happened in the colonial United States. It changed the way the government handled protesters as they started to use military suppression.
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!
In 1794 the citizens rebelled against the enforcement of a federal excise tax on whiskey that had been passed three years earlier.
if washington didnt take a strong action to put down the whiskey rebellion it would have gotton out of hand and they would have gotton more violent
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
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