Whiskey Rebellion

American  

noun

U.S. History.

1. a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.

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Example Sentences

Bennett pressed the point, asking whether under the current law the militia George Washington federalized to put down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 could “stay called up forever” — a position the government again affirmed.

From Los Angeles Times

Tax protests have a long history in the U.S., ranging from the Whiskey Rebellion to a variety of anti-war protests.

From Slate

As violence spread, Washington — in his second term as president — personally led a militia force to quell what became known as the Whiskey Rebellion.

From Los Angeles Times

An example of such a public purpose was George Washinton’s grants of clemency to participants in the so-called Whiskey Rebellion or Jimmy Carter’s of the Vietnam-era draft evaders.

From Slate

From the ratification of the Constitution until the end of Reconstruction, the U.S. experienced many violent episodes that were contemporaneously identified as insurrections, from Shays’ Rebellion, in 1786, and the Whiskey Rebellion, in 1794, to the Civil War.

From Slate