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The Whiskey Rebellion took place January 27, 1791 through late October, 1794. It occurred at Western Pennsylvania, throughout the frontier.
Hamilton, Washington, and the farmer were the key players in this event. 1791, George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton proposed a seemingly innocuous excise tax. What congress failed to predict was the vehement rejection of this tax by Americans living on the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. By1794, the Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the U.S. militia westward to stop the rebels.
The lesson is to make sure your ( the president’s ) action is what the people want and to be fair.
2. President George Washington personally led troops to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. He remains the only sitting president to go into battle.
1. The excise tax, a tax on alcohol, sparked the Whiskey Rebellion. Whiskey was sometimes used for trading in the early days of the United States, which helped to make this tax unpopular (to say the least) in some circles.
4. When the Whiskey Rebellion ended, only two rebels were convicted of treason. President Washington pardoned both.
3. Rebels would tar and feather tax collectors as punishment.
After a self-styled armed militia group staged a takeover of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, lasting more than one month, twelve arrests have been made and one person killed.
Cliven Bundy, one of the leaders of the group along with his two sons, was arrested during a standoff on Feb. 10, 2016 in Portland. The last four armed occupiers of the refuge said they would turn themselves in the morning of Feb. 12, after law officers surrounded them in a tense standoff.
The occupation of a wildlife refuge by armed protesters in Oregon reflects a decades-old dispute over land rights in the United States, where local communities have increasingly sought to take back federal land.
6. To end these protest, congress lowered the excise tax in 1763
5. Tom the Tinker’s signature became an emblem of the rebellion, warning people not to cooperate with the tax.
7. Most farmers began to pay up, but not the tax rebels of western Pennsylvania. These “whiskey boys” tarred and feathered tax collectors who tried to enforce law.
8. The whiskey rebellion was a serious challenge to the new nation ability to enforce laws.
At Hamilton's urging, Washington led 13,000 state militia troops across the mountains to crush the rebels. Faced with overwhelming force, the rebellion melted away.