The Whiskey Rebellion and the Whiskey Tax

New essay: The Whiskey rebellion was all about protesting the 1791 federal excise tax. The tax created a burden on the small distilleries mainly run by farmers. This tax was very unpopular and it only took 3 years before the tax led to violence. In 1794 violence broke out in Western Pennsylvania and it was up to the President to do something about it. The farmers not only sold the wisky but often used it as money to not only support their families but help to run their family farms. The trouble

In 1791 farmers tarred a tax collector and threatened to burn down houses.The Whiskey rebellion is what Alexander Hamilton called these events, it was farmers mostly in Pennsylvania rebelling against a whiskey tax. It was 1791, farmers rebelled against a whiskey tax, which later Washington led his army to stop, allowing him to empower his newly formed government. Shortly after Alexander Hamilton created the tax on whiskey which was used to pay off the Revolutionary war debt, some farmers started

“When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.” The Whiskey Rebellion, a tax protest in the United states beginning in 1791, ending in 1794, during the presidency of George Washington. This so called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed government. Although the tax applied to all distilled spirits, whiskey was by far the most popular beverage in 18th century America. The Whiskey Rebellion in the United States was immediately controversial

president that a tax on whiskey would be able to provide the revenue needed to repay the debts. However, the tax on whiskey was met with heavy resistance. To Hamilton, the tax was only “a few dollars a year for the average small distillery” but for the Frontiersmen it was an attack on their way of life. The resistance to the tax, the

comes to the decision to pass a tax on the production and distribution of whiskey, one of your main crops. What? Woah, woah, woah, wait a minute, did you not just fight a whole war against the taxes being imposed on you? A war for your rights? This can't be right, it just cannot be. Ah, but it is all too true. In the 1790s, a tax was passed that raised the price on distributing whiskey. This

lightning, mountain dew, hooch, homebrew, and white whiskey. The making and distribution of moonshine has helped shape the literature, music, and environment of Southern Appalachia while the Whiskey Rebellion and the Prohibition helped lead moonshine to its part in the Southern Appalachian society today. Moonshine is an essential part of the Appalachian

Their resentment in relation to the taxes sparked protests and led to large scale rebellions to express their grievances to the government. Both Shay's rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion were similar in their causes and purpose but they differed in consequences and their significance. Shay's Rebellion and The Whiskey Rebellion were both fought for

to happen now was to start collecting the whiskey revenue. This, however, is when the problems started. The Whiskey Excise Tax hit rural farmers especially hard, and they started crying foul almost immediately after passage. It was criticized for being an “unreasonable economic hardship and as an ominous intrusion by central authorities into local affairs” (Gould, 1996, 405). These “westerners” felt as if they were being unjustly victimized by this tax. Most farmers during this period in American

The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion on the first excise tax in the United States over "distilled spirits" but with whiskey being the most popular distilled beverage, this became known as the "Whiskey Rebellion". Taking place from March, 1791 to October, 1794, the rebellion started when Alexander Hamilton enacted the new tax with the newly formed federal government. Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist, was the first Secretary of the Treasury for the United States, needed to find a way to pay off

America from 1763 to 1791 was that the rebellions were always led by ordinary people to change government to benefit themselves. In the beginning of the period beginning in 1763, the first rebellion occurred in America, The March of the Paxton Boys. The Paxton Boy were Scots-Irish frontiersmen who created a small group in 1763 to retaliate against the the native attacks on the western frontier of Virginia and Pennsylvania that originated from the Pontiac’s Rebellion. They retaliated because the lack of