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Whisky Rebellion

  1. 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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It was on this principle that President Washington suppressed the whisky rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1794.

He was eminently useful in terminating the whisky rebellion.

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