MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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Farmers were paid more.
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The leaders were executed.
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Tariffs were dropped.
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the new government was able to demonstrate its power
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Detailed explanation-1: -When President Washington used military force to quash the Whiskey Rebellion, he demonstrated the ability of the central government to enforce law and collect taxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -This rebellion enforced the idea that the new government had the right to levy a particular tax that would impact citizens in all states. It also enforced the idea that this new government had the right to pass and enforce laws impacting all states.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Whiskey Rebellion. In 1794, farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis. In 1791, Congress approved a new, federal tax on spirits and the stills that produced them.
Detailed explanation-4: -The whiskey rebellion was significant because washington showed that the federal government had the strength to enforce its law; his reaction attracted supporters to the federalist cause.