The Whiskey Rebellion
About this book
Recapturing the historical drama and significance of the Whiskey Rebellion—the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution—Slaughter assesses this tax rebellion among frontier farmers in 1794 in relation to interregional tensions, republican ideology, and the social and political conflict of the 1780s and '90s.
Details
- First published
- 1986
- OL Work ID
- OL3279752W
Subjects
Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794PennsylvaniaWhiskey Insurrection, 1794Insurrection of 1794HistoryUnited states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775