03452cam a2200481 a 4500 12973354 MeVbMML 20240607162914.0 851209s1986 nyu b 001 0 eng 85030975 0195038991 9780195038996 0195051912 9780195051919 (OCoLC)12973354 (OCoLC)16805917 (OCoLC)59175144 AJM n-us-pa E315 .S59 1986 973.4/3 19 Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul) 17418 The Whiskey Rebellion : frontier epilogue to the American Revolution / Thomas P. Slaughter New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 291 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-278) and index Context: -- The tax man cometh -- The quest for frontier autonomy -- Sectional strife -- Lice, labor, and landscape -- George Washington and the western country; -- Chronology: -- Indians and the excise -- Assembly and proclamation -- Liberty, order, and the excise -- Alternative perspectives -- Federalism besieged; -- Consequence: -- Rebellion -- Response -- A tale of two riots and a watermelon army; -- Conclusion In 1794, "the single largest example of armed resistance to a law of the United States between the ratification of the Constitution and the Civil War" occurred in four frontier counties of western Pennsylvania when angry farmers there refused to pay an excise tax on whiskey-- a tax recently enacted by the new Federal government in Philadelphia. Forming themselves into mobs and sometimes disguised as Indians in deliberate imitation of the Boston Tea Party, the farmers physically assaulted the excise collectors. The response of Washington's first administration to this "Whiskey Rebellion" was swift and dramatic- he ordered an army of 13,000 to march west and crush this rebellion, thereby establishing a range of precedents that continue to define federal authority over localities to this day. The author presents not only a major new scholarly interpretation of the event, but a bold bid to establish the rebellion as a paradigm for understanding the ongoing debate between the defenders of liberty and the advocates of order through the entire sweep of our nation's history. -- Howard Lamar, Book jacket This book assesses the rebellion in relation to interregional tensions, international diplomacy, frontier expansion, republican ideology and the social and political conflict of the l780s -1790s Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794 17419 Excise tax 17420 Whiskey Taxation 17421 Taxation of articles of consumption 17422 Government, Resistance to Pennsylvania 17423 Civil disobedience 17424 Taxation Public opinion 17425 Pennsylvania History 17426 Online version: Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul) Whiskey Rebellion. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)561699672 Online version: Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul) Whiskey Rebellion. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)604976843 .b1114810x ddc BOOK 29748 29748 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2024-06-07 19.95 0 973.43 SLAU 66239 2024-06-07 2024-06-07 BOOK 1