USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In line with the American Revolution, local farmers began holding gatherings to voice their disagreement with the tax starting in 1792. A big assembly in Pittsburgh declared that the people would prevent the tax from being collected, and one tax gatherer was even tarred and feathered in protest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Western farmers felt the tax was an abuse of federal authority wrongly targeting a demographic that relied on crops such as corn, rye, and grain to earn a profit.

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: -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.