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What pa rebellion demonstrated how unhappy farmers in the west were the new taxes placed on whiskey?
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An armed insurrection by Pennsylvania farmers protesting federal tax policies in 1796?
whiskey rebellion
Caused rebellion in Pennsylvania?
The federal whiskey tax produced the whiskey rebellion.
What govermment policies caused backcountry farmers in Virginia to rebel?
The Whiskey Rebellion was a reaction to a new government tax on spirits. After harvest, farmers would distill excess corn that they harvested into whiskey instead of letting it rot. Farmers vehemently opposed this government intervention in their livelihood.
What were the major arguments regarding taxation under the new government?
Whiskey's Rebellion... which accrued in 1794 and it was a protest against the governments taxes on whiskey by Back country farmers!!Treaty of Greenville which accrued in 1795 and it was a treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded control of much of Ohio and Indiana to the U.S government!
Why is the wiskey rebellion important?
The whiskey rebellion occurred twice in early US history. The first occurrence was a tax that Britain used to charge the colonies for alcoholic beverages. The second time the whiskey rebellion occurred before prohibition was when the new colonies began charging a luxury tax to distilled spirits to pay for the revolutionary war.
