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Whiskey Rebellion

Fact: Whiskey Rebellion the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S.

Fact: "Alexander Hamilton would later correctly portray it as something more than a spontaneous riot"

source: Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion : Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1988.

ISBN: 9780195051919

Fact: The rebellion of 1794 was the final stage of resistance to a federal excise tax on the domestic manufacture of distilled spirits.

Fact: It was passed by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and passed by Congress in 1791, farmers were required to register them with the tac collector and make payments proportional to thier production volume.

Source: Gould, Roger V. Patron-Client Ties, State Centralization, and the Whiskey Rebellion

ISSN: 0002-9602 EISSN: 1537-5390 DOI: 10.1086/230951