{"id":5,"date":"2018-10-30T17:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/whiskeyrebellion\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:28:08","slug":"overview-significance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/whiskeyrebellion\/overview-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview & Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Whiskey Rebellion<\/b><\/p>\n

On March 1791, the first Congress passed a tariff on distilled spirits in the United States. This was the first time that the United States of America created a tax on domestic goods since establishing after breaking away from Britain. With the intention of generating revenue for the debt from the Revolutionary War<\/a><\/strong>, farmers in western Pennsylvania became outraged because Spirits like Whiskey were so precious and even used as a form of currency when bartering. From all this outrage, the Whiskey Rebellion<\/strong><\/a> was created. The Rebellion lasted from 1791-1794 after Washington started sending out Militiamen to the places were the rebels of the tariff were attacking tax collectors. After these militiamen were showing up, the attacks stopped but the many officials were afraid to enforce the tax until their safety wasn\u2019t at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Significance<\/b><\/p>\n

The Whiskey Rebellion<\/strong><\/a> was influential in so many ways because it was one of the first times that the common people and higher stature government officials conflicted so drastically. One of the first significant things that spewed from the Rebellion was it showed that the Government was able and willing to suppress acts of resistance. That division between rural farmers struggling to make it in America against the more socioeconomic American natives living along the seaboard was the first example of a resistance against class struggle. Therefore from the strong divide in beliefs, America began to establish our first Political Parties<\/strong><\/a> due to this Rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Stephanie Townrow<\/b><\/p>\n

Stephanie Krom Townrow is Public historian that is a museum educator, digital humanities Producer, and program coordinator, and history educator. She graduated from Hunter College, Yale Public History Institute, and New York University earning all the way up to her master’s degree. She created this project in 2015, however she has many other projects that can be found on her website stephanietownrow.com<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Whiskey Rebellion On March 1791, the first Congress passed a tariff on distilled spirits in the United States. This was the first time that the United States of America created a tax on domestic goods since establishing after breaking away from Britain. With the intention of generating revenue for the debt from the Revolutionary…<\/span><\/p>\n

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