The Whiskey Rebellion was a battle about taxes in the United States beginning in 1791. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax forced on a domestic product by the government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate money to help reduce the national debt. Although the tax applied to all distilled spirits, whiskey. Because of this, the removal became known as a "whiskey tax". The new removal was a part of U.S. treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to pay war debt created by the American Revolutionary
