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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. The "whiskey tax" became law in 1791 ...
The Whiskey Rebellion was a 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
Whiskey Rebellion, uprising against the liquor tax in Pennsylvania in 1794 that was militarily quelled, though no battle ensued. A test for the new U.S. government, it was a triumph for national authority over its first rebellious adversary, winning the support of state governments in enforcing federal law.
The Whiskey Rebellion. May 6, 2020 • Updated June 5, 2024. Just years after the successful American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America, rebellion occurred. This insurrection proved to be the first of many tests that the infant nation had to deal with.
The Whiskey Rebellion was an armed insurrection that took place in western Pennsylvania in 1794. Famers rebelled in protest of a federal excise tax on whiskey enacted by Congress in 1791. George Washington was President during the Whiskey Rebellion.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a political crisis in the early years of the United States, which was triggered when a tax on alcoholic spirits sparked a backlash among settlers on the western frontier of Pennsylvania.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent uprising of small farmers against a federal excise tax on liquor, that broke out in western Pennsylvania in 1794. It was suppressed by a federal militia army raised by President Washington.
By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the United States militia westward to stop the rebels.
In July, rebels near Pittsburgh set fire to the home of John Neville, the regional tax collection supervisor. Determined to set a precedent for the federal government’s authority, President George Washington gathered an army of 12,000 militiamen to disperse the rebels.
By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion was in full swing in western Pennsylvania. After a heated battle between the “whiskey rebels” and a federal tax collector in July 1794, President Washington felt the need to take forcible measures to quell the insurrection and assert federal authority.