The Whiskey Rebellion

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May 3, 2013

 

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The grain farmers, most of whom were also distillers, depended on whiskey for almost all their income, and they considered the law an attack on their liberty and economic well-being. Organized resistance to the tax, even including the tarring and feathering of federal revenue officials, rapidly assumed grave proportions...
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Warrants for the arrest of a large number of noncomplying distillers were issued by the federal authorities in the spring of 1794; in the riots that followed a federal officer was killed, and a mob burned the home of the regional inspector of the excise. In a proclamation issued in August 1794, President George Washington ordered the insurgents to disperse and requested the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia to mobilize contingents of militia...
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