Whisky Rebellion
An insurrection that broke out in the early 1790s in western Pennsylvania. Hundreds of residents took arms against federal officials charged with collecting a tax on liquor distilled at home. Federal troops then put the rebellion down. Occurring only a few years after the adoption of the Constitution, the Whisky Rebellion was an important test of the power of the new federal government to enforce its laws.
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How to use Whisky Rebellion in a sentence
It was on this principle that President Washington suppressed the Whisky Rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1794.
Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes | James D. RichardsonHe was eminently useful in terminating the Whisky Rebellion.
Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution | L. Carroll Judson
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