MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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They were refusing to accept the new taxes that were placed on farm goods.
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They were upset with Congress for creating new laws that costed them their farmers.
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They were angry about their economic situation and lack of representation.
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They were dissatisfied with having to specialize in the growth of new crops.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Whiskey Rebellion was a response to the excise tax proposed by Alexander Hamilton, who was Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury in 1791.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Whiskey Rebellion, (1794), in American history, uprising that afforded the new U.S. government its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means within state boundaries, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania to quell an uprising of settlers rebelling against the liquor tax.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Whiskey Rebellion was the first test of federal authority in the United States. This rebellion enforced the idea that the new government had the right to levy a particular tax that would impact citizens in all states.