Whiskey Rebellion

George Washington led the army during the whiskey Rebellion.

In the early days of the United States, farmers west of the Appalachian Mountains found it expensive to sell their crops. It was expensive to ship corn, a bulk commodity. They could turn corn into whiskey, a high priced item, and ship it for far less money than the corn it was made from. The government put a tax on whiskey. The tax mainly affected farmers west of the mountains. It also mainly affected a poorer element of society. The Farmers refused to pay the tax and rebelled against the Tax Collectors. President Washington led an army against the rebellion, and crushed the rebellion. The significance of the rebellion was that it showed that the Federal Government could and would enforce its laws. However, in the long term, it also showed that the rich Federalists could not get away with leveling a tax on the poorest segment of society.

The reason for this is that is that the government was trying to send a message. they were trying to say (and Washington may or may not have actually said this) that just because there was a law that you don't like, you can't rebel, and this was especially important because it was soon after the Revolutionary War, and we just defeated England, and though morales were high, the army/navy were very weak. Washington personally led the 2,000 some troops to dissuade the rebels from the notion of, well, rebelling.

He stopped it by sending federal troops into western Pennsylvania to end the protest once and for all. The significance o this action was that it showed the strength of the federal gov't (government) under the Constitution because they no longer used the Articles of Confederation. It was a fitting response to an immediate threat to the federal government.

George Washington left office after his 2nd term.

George Washington was trying to prove that he could be a strong leader that would enforce the law, since the people were doubting that the government was capable of handling rebellion.

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.

It was a federal excise tax ,passed in 1791, on whiskey distillers where small distillers paid per gallon while the large distillers paid a flat rate.

President Washington feared that the rebels threatened the federal government's authority. He believed he needed to make people understand that the constitution gave congress the right to pass and enforce the tax. As an aside the tax was the result of Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies. Naturally he urged Washington to take swift action.

Whiskey was a cash crop to the western settlers. They could not ship their grain down the Mississippi River until it was opened to American trade in 1795. The cost of transporting the grain east over the mountains was too expensive. Converted into liquor, a horse could carry enough of the liquid to make the trip profitable. When Hamilton convinced Washington and Congress to pass a tax on whiskey, the profit to the western farmers dried up. Like Shays's Rebellion before, the western farmers rebelled against the tax by rioting in some of the river towns and roughing up the tax collectors. Washington, who had not supported the ideas behind Shays' Rebellion, saw an opportunity to show the power of the new federal government over the weakness of the Articles. Along with Hamilton, he led 15,000 troops to suppress the rebellion. Washington left the area when the farmers dispersed, but Hamilton rounded up several who were tried for treason and sentenced to death. Washington pardoned them, calling them "mental defectives." The rebellion was not much as far as military "battles" go, but the importance of the Whiskey Rebellion was political. The government asserted the power over the states to enforce Federal Laws by using troops, if necessary, that came from other states. Of course, the western farmers never supported the Federalists when they formed the Federalist Party.

In response to the whiskey tax law passed in 1791.

The federal response to the rebellion demonstrated that the new federal government would use force if necessary to collect taxes and uphold its authority.

It established the right of the government to levy this type of tax. It also showed the need for a national guard to maintain order and established its right of federal government to create such a force.

Whiskey Rebellion proved to Americans that their new government would act firmly in times of crisis and represented the first major test of the national government's ability to enforce its laws within the states.

• President Washington's use of soldiers to make the farmers stop rebelling had two effects: 1) the government was able to demonstrate its power and 2) the Federalist Party lost the support of the people.
• The wealthy people's perspective of President Washington's Whiskey Rebellion action was that it was a good move. The ordinary people's perspective was that the government had been too harsh and that it should have listened to complaints of the farmers.

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.

George Washington took with him 13,000 federal soldiers to crush the rebellion but before he arrived it had dispersed.

Cheyenne weapons were much the same as for all Plains tribes. The main weapon was always the bow and arrows, the bow being about 45 to 52 inches long if made of wood (ash or hickory) and about 33 inches if made of sheep horn and sinew. Arrows were 25 to 28 inches and often painted with rings around the feathered end; feathers were of hawk, eagle or turkey. By the mid-19th century all Cheyenne arrow points were of metal obtained from white traders.

Some trade axes ("tomahawks") were used, plus war clubs with stone heads or shaped like a gunstock inset with metal knife blades (knives were also a common trade item).

Cheyenne warriors also obtained guns from trading posts, sometimes old and poorly-made flintlock and percussion weapons, but sometimes up-to-date repeaters such as the Henry rifle. They also obtained percussion pistols such as the Navy Colt, but preferred their own native weapons.

Lances were generally the emblem of a particular warrior society such as the Dog Soldiers.

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The Whiskey Rellion revealed George Washington's concern with national security because he was the leader of the rebellion and Alexander wanted everyone exected

Chilled, neat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

yes they did

A rebellion is an armed uprising against an established authority. The word derives from the word "rebel". A rebellion is often a grassroots affair designed to protest the actions of the authority or to force a change in them. It is not usually intended to change the government or make massive social change; that would be a revolution.

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