because he saw it as a treath to the authority of the national goverment.
Washington raised an army to crush they rebellion. However, before Washington arrived to Pennsylvania the militia dispersed. Washington and his forces arrested a few people, who were either found not guilty or pardoned.
i think he sent an army out to crush the resistance
reasons
George Washington led the army during the whiskey Rebellion.
he came in with the U.S. Army and ended the rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion of farmers from Pennsylvania to Georgia. It was in response to the tax put on whiskey. The farmers were upset because they thought the whiskey was an important good. So, they rebelled against the tax. George Washington sent an army down to calm the rebellion.
George Washington had to form an army and make the farmers stop producing whisky they stoped
It was the first time her had to call upon the constitutional army.
Washington was able to stop the rebellion with troops. This was not the case during Shay's Rebellion. The stopping of the rebellion showed the people that the army was strong and the new government could enforce laws.
They were protesting a tax on whiskey. Because of the remote area of the country they lived in it was easier to make whiskey from their corn and transport the whiskey than it was to transport the corn itself. But then the tax would have cut into their profit. Edit: In short, the Whiskey Rebellion.
President Washington ordered the army to end the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 because it was a violent uprising by farmers in western Pennsylvania against the federal government's excise tax on whiskey. The rebellion threatened the authority of the newly formed federal government and its ability to enforce laws. Washington saw it as a challenge to the rule of law and the stability of the young nation, so he took decisive action to suppress the rebellion and uphold the authority of the federal government.
People needed to understand the constitutional right of Congressto institute tax laws.