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Whiskey Rebellion

Lecture Series: The Whiskey Boys and the Watermelon Army:  Tax Protests on the Pennsylvania Frontier in the Early American Republic
28 Sep 2017

Lecture Series: The Whiskey Boys and the Watermelon Army: Tax Protests on the Pennsylvania Frontier in the Early American Republic

by Nancy Bradley | | 0

Beginning in 1791, farmers in western Pennsylvania protested the whiskey tax, an excise on distilled spirits imposed by the new federal Congress.  Resistance grew into a rebellion that, by 1794, instigated an armed confrontation with the new national government. To … Continued

Lecture, Whiskey Rebellion

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