With an unsparing look at both Hamilton and Washington, journalist and historian William Hogeland offers a provocative, in-depth analysis of this forgotten revolution and suppression. To President Washington, it was the catalyst for the first-ever deployment of a federal army, a military action that would suppress an insurgency against the American government. To Alexander Hamilton, the tax was the key to industrial growth. To the hard-bitten people of the depressed and violent West, the whiskey tax paralyzed their rural economies, putting money in the coffers of already wealthy creditors and industrialists. In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing the tax collectors who attempted to collect the first federal tax ever laid on an American product-whiskey. His narrative also introduces the reader to frontier life in the early Republic and to the tentative and uncertain manner in which the new government formulated policy.A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people's movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority. Hogeland narrates this story in a traditional yet arresting style and provides the reader with insights into both sides of the issue. There was no bloodshed, and the tax was repealed in 1802. President George Washington mobilized 13,000 soldiers and marched them under his direct command to the rebellious areas of Pennsylvania.
Small Pennsylvania farmers would suffer under this tax, and their response was to attack Federal representatives and arm themselves against the expected government retaliation. tax of any kind – a tax on whiskey levied in 1791, which was a critical element of Treasury Secretary’s Alexander Hamilton’s economic policy. This brief period of organized armed dissent was a local response to the first U.S. The Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 in western Pennsylvania remains a relatively unknown and unexplored segment of the American past. The Whiskey Rebellion : George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty
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