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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.
John Fries (/ f r iː z /; c. 1750 – February 1818) [1] was a Pennsylvania auctioneer. He organized Fries's Rebellion , an early episode of tax resistance in the United States . Biography
It was the third of three tax-related rebellions in the 18th century United States, the earlier two being Shays' Rebellion (central and western Massachusetts, 1786–87) and the Whiskey Rebellion (western Pennsylvania, 1794). It was commemorated in 2003 with a Pennsylvania historical marker erected in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where it first ...
Whiskey Rebellion (lede image), Presidency of George Washington, Taxation history of the United States, 1794 in the United States FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History Creator Unknown, attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer. Support as nominator--Crisco 1492 11:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Whiskey Rebellion: 1791–1794 Western Pennsylvania: Frontier tax protesters Tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, over 175 distillers from Kentucky were convicted of violating the tax law. [9] Suppressed by an army personally led by President Washington: No specific events Fries's Rebellion: 1799–1800 Rebel farmers
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Bradford and his family occupied the house only for 6 years, until 1794, when he fled following the Whiskey Rebellion. [2] It was in this home [5] that author Rebecca Harding Davis was born on June 24, 1831. [6] A historical marker honoring her a few blocks away was the first dedicated to a woman in Washington, Pennsylvania. [7]
Redstone Old Fort is mentioned in C. M. Ewing's The Causes of that so called Whiskey Insurrection of 1794 (1930) as the site of a July 27, 1791, meeting in "Opposition to the Whiskey Excise Tax," during the Whiskey Rebellion. It was the first meeting of that illegal frontier insurrection. [9]