The Whiskey Rebellion Summary
Whiskey Rebellion
The whiskey rebellion written by Thomas P. Slaughter thoroughly described the importance of the event in America’s history, not only that but it gives us the opportunity to really comprehend the background of the event and some of the biggest challenges. The book the Whiskey Rebellion frontier epilogue to the American Revolution captures the historical drama and the importance of the whiskey rebellion. The book is divided into three sections context, chronology and consequence. The first section analyzes the ideological underpinnings of the frontier unrest that had in earlier decades sustained the American Revolution and informed the anti-federalist attack on the Constitution. It is here that Slaughter builds his case for putting interregional conflict at the heart of the Rebellion. The chronological section takes the reader from the early Indian conflicts that Slaughter deems central to the western experience, through the early years of protest against the excise. Western complaints about navigation rights. The first chapter in the book describes the back ground due to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party’s plan for war recovery the whiskey tax was created. The slaughter goes onto showing u the effects such as the opposite views of the federalists …show more content…
The occasion for this was to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continue to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked as rebellion against Americas laws protected under the Constitution. Under Alexander Hamilton’s plan to recover from war, the government had decided to impose the first ever tax on the most popular distilled drink in the 1800’s. This new tax upset many Americans who believed it to be unconstitutional. The classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order, was one of the most significant events in the first quarter-century of the new
The whiskey rebellion written by Thomas P. Slaughter thoroughly described the importance of the event in America’s history, not only that but it gives us the opportunity to really comprehend the background of the event and some of the biggest challenges. The book the Whiskey Rebellion frontier epilogue to the American Revolution captures the historical drama and the importance of the whiskey rebellion. The book is divided into three sections context, chronology and consequence. The first section analyzes the ideological underpinnings of the frontier unrest that had in earlier decades sustained the American Revolution and informed the anti-federalist attack on the Constitution. It is here that Slaughter builds his case for putting interregional conflict at the heart of the Rebellion. The chronological section takes the reader from the early Indian conflicts that Slaughter deems central to the western experience, through the early years of protest against the excise. Western complaints about navigation rights. The first chapter in the book describes the back ground due to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party’s plan for war recovery the whiskey tax was created. The slaughter goes onto showing u the effects such as the opposite views of the federalists …show more content…
The occasion for this was to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continue to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked as rebellion against Americas laws protected under the Constitution. Under Alexander Hamilton’s plan to recover from war, the government had decided to impose the first ever tax on the most popular distilled drink in the 1800’s. This new tax upset many Americans who believed it to be unconstitutional. The classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order, was one of the most significant events in the first quarter-century of the new