The Whiskey Rebellion
From Conservapedia
(Redirected from Whiskey Rebellion)
The Whiskey Rebellion resulted when four counties in Pennsylvania refused to pay a newly placed tax on whiskey. The tax increase on whiskey was advocated of Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and was passed in the Spring of 1791.[1] In 1794, because of the counties refusal to pay taxes and their acts of intimidation towards tax collectors; President George Washington was forced to send a 13,000-man army to rebuild order in the Pennsylvania counties. After the dispatch of the forces, the revolution died. [1] The Whiskey Rebellion is very similar to the Fries Rebellion which happened four years later.
