Whiskey Rebellion

developed during George Washington's presidency due to different responses to the events of the early 1790’s. Federalist thought the events such as the Whiskey Rebellion or the French Revolution, proved that if the people were left with too much power it would foster disorder and rebellion. Republicans, differed in opinion as they thought the Whiskey Rebellion and the French Revolution were assertions that the true source of political power should rest with the people. The division between…

colonies and states. The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin who hated their vulnerability to attack. The Paxton Boys were from Paxton, Pennsylvania. The Paxton Boys were formed to reciprocate against American Indans and the Pontiac Rebellion after the French and Indian War. The Paxton Boys invaded and killed many of the Conestoga Indians, also known as Susquehannock. The invasion the Paxton Boys took place in was called the Conestoga Massacre. After the Paxton Boys made the…

Whiskey Rebellion In 1791 the government of the United States was just recovering from the Revolutionary War, during which time a great amount of debt had been incurred. United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, proposed a bill to help prevent the national debt from growing any larger. This bill would put an excise tax of 25% on all distilled spirits and was approved by both houses during the 1791 winter session of Congress. “The Treasury Secretary considered liquor a…

1790s an excise tax on spirits angered Pennsylvania farmers lead to the Whiskey Rebellion, over which many Americans differed in opinion. Many groups and people were in favor of the Rebellion feeling that the government’s actions were unfair and an overstep of their boundaries. This included the Republican Party who believed in the federal government having limited power. Other representatives believed that the tax and the rebellion that followed ultimately causes harm to the American people and…

President, had passed an excise tax on whiskey. The farmers mostly grew the grains, however giving their location in the western counties of Pennsylvania, made grain shipments near impossible to the east. Traveling with shipments were difficult and very time consuming because the Allegheny Mountains separated the west from the east. Almost all farmers, from small to lager, kept their whiskey stills and continued to make whiskey with their extra grain. Whiskey was often used as money to pay for…

Whiskey Rebellion Put Down! After Pennsylvania farmers were heavily taxed on all distilled alcohol for over six years, they finally had their complaints heard by the federal government. These debt-ridden farmers have been taxed on their distilled alcohol to the point where they are scrounging by with little money. They were in an already deep economic depression and many had lost their farms. Many farmers, distilling alcohol for their own consumption, not to be sold, have been forced to pay…

causes and effects of the Whiskey Rebellion was a long lasting effect on America. The thing that caused the whiskey rebellion was, a tax protest that then later became know as the Whiskey Tax. Because of this people started to revolt due to the “tax on whiskey”. The tax on whiskey was basically a fundraiser to get the money back from the revolutionary war. There was many people involved in this whiskey rebellion but it was mostly farmers who revolted the tax on whiskey. Many were war…

instituted tariffs on domestic goods. The Whiskey Tax, proved to be the most controversial of them all. This tax targeted those whose lives revolved around whiskey as a method of trade. By unequally taxing the citizens, the Whiskey Tax sparked a rebellion led by the farmers of Western Pennsylvania. By stripping its citizens of their rights, the American republic modeled the very government that they once rebelled against. The government’s response in the Whiskey Rebellion was a departure from…

This often meant that men also lost their right to vote since suffrage was often tied to owning land. At the beginning, the rebellion was peaceful and centered mainly on freeing the men who had been jailed for not paying their taxes. This revolt becomes more militant on August 29, 1786. A Massachusetts militia that had been raised as a private army defeated the rebellion force on February 3, 1787. In 1791, the government of the United States previously running under the Articles of…

1791 1. The Whiskey Rebellion After the Revolutionary War, government tried to procure a steady source of revenue through taxing whiskey. In response, the government faced a small-scale revolution by some of its own citizens. Most of the country felt negatively toward taxing in general, much less taxing on whiskey. In 1974, a tax inspectors home was attacked by a group of whiskey rebels. The actions of the rebels turned head and the presence of the Whiskey Rebellion threatened to expand to…