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the tax made them angry because they didn't have the money to pay the tax or for the goods they needed it also affected their way of life.
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Why did farmers in western Pennsylvania engage in acts known as the whiskey rebellion?
In response to the whiskey tax law passed in 1791.
Who was part of the Whiskeys Rebellion and Why?
The Whiskey Rebellion consisted mainly of frontiersmen and Western farmers who were disgruntled by Alexander Hamilton's whiskey excise tax.
Did Thomas Jefferson support the Whiskey Tax?
Against. It was unfair to the southern farmers, who transported grain as whiskey.
Why did farmers rebel when Hamilton Place a tax on whiskey?
the tax made them angry because they didn't have the money to pay the tax or for the goods they needed it also affected their way of life.
What was the main cause of the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Whiskey Rebellion during George Washington's Administration where farmers, who had begun to use whiskey produced from surplus grain as a medium of exchange and store of value. This action made the whiskey a currency in the government's eyes and then they levied taxes against it at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The farmers protested this new tax using the same principles of "No Taxation without Representation" that were the basis for the American Revolution itself.
A tax on this outraged backcountry farmers?
Whiskey tax
What was the whiskey rebellion a revolt againts?
The federal government had placed a tax on corn (which is used to make whiskey), so the farmers who relied on the production of the crop for their livelihood rebelled.
What tax did congress pass that upseted the farmers?
tax on whiskey
A protest by poor western farmers that was firmly suppressed by Washington and Hamilton's army?
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.
What does Hamilton's economic plan included a tax on?
whiskey
What product was taxed with Hamilton's excise tax?
whiskey.
What tax outragged backcountry farmers in 1700s?
whiskey :)
