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'''The Whiskey Rebellion''' was the refusal of farmers in western Pennsylvania in the 1790s to pay federal taxes on the whiskey the produced for market. The tax on whiskey was pushed by Secretary of Treasury [[Alexander Hamilton]] in 1791, to help pay the national debt. Farmers grew corn, which was too bulky to ship to markets, so they distilled it into whiskey, which was easy to ship in barrels.
The farmers attacked federal officials and closed the courts. President [[George Washington]] refused to tolerate this violent protest. he called on governors to provide 13,000 militiamen, whom he personally led into the troubled region. The rebellion immediately evaporated, no one was punished, the tax was collected (until Jefferson repealed it in 1801) and national authority was assured. The Whiskey Rebellion is very similar to the [[Fries Rebellion]] which happened four years later in Pennsylvania.
==Further reading==
* Baldwin, Leland D. ''Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising.'' (1939) [http://www.questia.com/read/8495881?title=Whiskey%20Rebels%3a%20The%20Story%20of%20a%20Frontier%20Uprising online edition]
* Hogeland, William. ''The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the frontier rebels who challenged America's newfound sovereignty.'' (2006).
* Slaughter, Thomas P. ''The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier epilogue to the American Revolution.'' (1986) [http://www.questia.com/read/101534833?title=The%20Whiskey%20Rebellion%3a%20Frontier%20Epilogue%20to%20the%20American%20Revolution online edition].
==References==
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[[Category: United States History]]
[[Category: Tax revolts]]