03571cam a2200493 a 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.0851209s1986    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a85030975  a0195038991  a9780195038996  a0195051912  a9780195051919  a(OCoLC)12973354z(OCoLC)16805917z(OCoLC)59175144  cAJM  an-us-pa00aE315b.S59 198600a973.4/32191 aSlaughter, Thomas P.q(Thomas Paul)91741814aThe Whiskey Rebellion :bfrontier epilogue to the American Revolution /cThomas P. Slaughter  aNew York :bOxford University Press, c1986  a291 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-278) and index0 aContext: -- 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  aIn 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  aThis 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 0aWhiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794917419 0aExcise tax917420 0aWhiskeyxTaxation917421 0aTaxation of articles of consumption917422 0aGovernment, Resistance tozPennsylvania917423 0aCivil disobedience917424 0aTaxationxPublic opinion917425 0aPennsylvaniaxHistory91742608iOnline version:aSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)tWhiskey Rebellion.dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1986w(OCoLC)56169967208iOnline version:aSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)tWhiskey Rebellion.dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1986w(OCoLC)604976843  a.b1114810x  2ddccBOOK  c29748d29748  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcNFd2024-06-07g19.95l0o973.43 SLAUp66239r2024-06-07w2024-06-07yBOOK11