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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
The 1794 State of the Union Address was delivered by the 1st President of the United States, George Washington, to a joint session of the Third United States Congress on November 19, 1794. The speech came in the aftermath of the Whiskey Rebellion, an armed insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania against the federal excise tax on ...
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion [5] 1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers [6] 1795 – Treaty of Greenville; 1795 – Jay's Treaty; 1795 – 11th Amendment "ratified by 12 of the then 15 states" [7] 1795 – Pinckney's Treaty (also called Treaty of San Lorenzo) [8] 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state [9] (formerly part of North Carolina) 1796 ...
October 14: Washington reviews the army assembled against the Whiskey Rebellion. January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes, in recognition of the recent admission of Vermont and Kentucky as the 14th and 15th states. [1]
Braddock's Field also was the site of a rally of rebellious militiamen and farmers during the Whiskey Rebellion, prior to a massive march on the city of Pittsburgh on August 1, 1794. [4] The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is located nearby and may cover the former site of John Fraser's cabin. [1]
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Britain and France were at war 1793–1815, with one brief interruption. American policy was neutrality, with the federalists hostile to France, and the Republicans hostile to Britain. The Jay Treaty of 1794 marked the decisive mobilization of the two parties and their supporters in every state. President Washington, while officially ...
In 1794, President George Washington mustered 13,000 Federal troops near Bedford to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion, which was sparked by a tax on whiskey. The troops are believed to have assembled near Jean Bonnet Tavern , four miles west of Bedford, while Washington himself used the Espy House in Bedford as his headquarters.