MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE WHISKEY REBELLION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Peaceful protest
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A war
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -It all started with a tax. What came to be known as the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, or the Western Insurrection, took place over a period of time beginning in 1791 by most accounts.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Whiskey Rebellion was a 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.