The Whiskey Rebellion
Book Review
By Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
HIS 1111
The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution.
By Thomas P. Slaughter. (New York: Oxford University Press, l986, 291 pp.)
In October of 1794, in response to a popular uprising against the federal government, President Washington sent an army of nearly 13,000 men across the Allegheny Mountains into the frontier regions of Western Pennsylvania. This event marked the greatest internal crisis of Washington's administration and was probably the most divisive event that occurred in the United States prior to the Civil War. The significance of this event has often been overlooked and forgotten in popular historical accounts. Thomas Slaughter's thirteen-chapter chronicle of this event in American history takes great steps toward correcting that oversight.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent uprising against an excise tax placed on liquor, much like the tax revolt against the Stamp Act that ignited the American......
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