Over the next three years dozens of tax collectors were beaten, shot at, tarred and feathered, and otherwise terrorized, intimidated, and humiliated. The home and plantation of John Neville, the chief tax collector for southwestern Pennsylvania, were burned to the ground.
There was a tax put on whiskey.
This angered the farmers because they didn't want to pay that tax.
Thus, the Whiskey Rebellion.
because they wanted to
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.
What was unfair about the whiskey rebellion was that the western farmers from Pennsylvania were taxed on whiskey but the other farmers were not!
The leaders wanted to create a strong central government. The way that the Whiskey Rebellion was handled showed an ability to suppress violent resistance to the law, thus contributing to the ratification of the constitution.
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
they arrested the protesters
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!
The leaders wanted to create a strong central government. The way that the Whiskey Rebellion was handled showed an ability to suppress violent resistance to the law, thus contributing to the ratification of the constitution.
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
The Whiskey Rebellion began in the western part of Pennsylvania in 1794.It ended when President Washington led 13,000 men in a Federal militia to quell the uprising, in October 1794.
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