The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

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When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax Rise up among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities these days. The “Whiskey Rise up” marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic war of words between champions of liberty and defenders of order was once long thought to be essentially the most significant event within the first quarter-century of the brand new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode during which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of the American Revolution.

The book not only offers the broadest and most comprehensive account of the Whiskey Rise up ever written, making an allowance for the political, social and intellectual contexts of the time, but also challenges conventional understandings of the Revolutionary era.

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