Whiskey Rebellion Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

Name: Whiskey Rebellion Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
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ISBN: 9780195051919

ISBN-10: 0195051912

ISBN-13: 9780195051919

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Thomas P. Slaughter

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When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode in which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/14/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.07" wide x 5.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



The Tax Man Cometh



The Quest for Frontier Autonomy



Sectional Strife



Lige, Labor, and Landscape



George Washington and the Western Country



Indians and the Excise



Assembly and Proclamation



Liberty, Order, and the Exgise



Alternative Perspectives



Rebellion



Response



A Tale of Two Riots and a Watermelon Army


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Index