The whiskey rebellion
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- WE WILL NOT PAY!!!!!
- in order to raise money for the national debt i will excise the first national revenue tax
- you got it
- tell the rebels to go home, ill send my troops to occupy the region...
- are we there yet?
- From the beginning, the Federal government had trouble collecting the whiskey tax along the frontier. While many small western distillers simply refused to pay the tax, others took a more violent stand against it, roughing up and intimidating federal revenue officers.
- Follow me its this way!
- 446 miles
- Town of Bedford
- In 1794 uprising that afforded the new U.S. government its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means within state boundaries, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania to an uprising of settlers rebelling against the liquor tax. Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, had proposed the excise the first national internal revenue tax to raise money for the national debt and to assert the power of the national government.
- please... dont hurt me no more
- \George Washington issued an authorized proclamation ordering the rebels to return home and calling for militia from Pennsylvania and three states New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia after negotiations with the committee representing the rebels which included Anti-Federalists Washington and ordered 13,000 troops into the area.
- On September 19, 1794, George Washington became the only sitting U.S. President to personally lead troops in the field when he led the militia on a nearly month-long march west over the Allegheny Mountains to the town of Bedford.
- The violence escalated in 1794 as armed rebels and militiamen confronted revenue collectors and federal troops in several western Pennsylvania counties, resulting in beatings, destroyed property and at least two deaths.
- The successful suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion helped to confirm the supremacy of Federal law in the early United States and the right of Congress to levy and collect taxes on a nation-wide basis.
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