it was not the whiskey tax, i was the tea tax (stamp act)
The whiskey boys hurt the tax collectors all the time.
Whiskey tax
The purpose of the whiskey tax was to help pay off debts to other country's after the war.
The tax bill was passed in 1791. The actual rebellion was in 1794.
The purpose of the whiskey tax was to help pay off debts to other country's after the war.
tax on whiskey
The federal whiskey tax produced the whiskey rebellion.
Farmers who produced small amounts of whiskey for trade argued they could not afford the tax. By 1794 fighting had broken out. Farmers lashed out on the whiskey tax. Protestors refused to pay the tax. Some called themselves the "new sons of Liberty"
it was caused by the whiskey tax
I believe that the answer is The Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers rebelled in what was called the Whiskey Rebellion because whiskey was the thing that generated a high income for the farmers. They were able to ship it off to far places unlike corn. They didn't like paying the tax because the tax was an excise tax, a tax on distribution.