Compare And Contrast Shay's Rebellion And Whiskey Rebellion

The Whisky Rebellion tax and the rebellion itself built support for the republicans which took over Washington’s federalist Party power in 1802. Republicans which over took Washington’s power in 1802. In 1794 thousands of farmers in western Pennsylvania took up arms in opposition to the enforcement of a federal law calling for imposition of an excise tax on distilled spirits. This insurrection represented the largest organized resistance against federal authority between the American Revolution and the Civil War. A number of the whisky rebels were prosecuted for treason in what were the first such legal proceedings in the United States.

Both rebellions tell the same narrative, a group of peoples (such as the Métis or the Southern landowners) who wished to maintain their previous economic and political power in a country that was rapidly changing due to the vast socioeconomic upheaval that was the industrial revolution. Both groups felt that the central government was taking away their political rights and marginalizing them from government; moreover, both attempted to preserve their own institutions that they felt the central government was attempting to take away from them, such as language and cultural rights or slavery and southern institutions. In the end, the only way they felt they could maintain the status quo was by taking up arms against a central government. All attempts of negotiation between the government and the rebels broke down, and a state of war prevailed until eventually, the central government won over due to their superior resources, industries and manpower. The rebellion, ultimately unsuccessful, ended in the complete abolishment of all the rights that they had fought for and instead prompted the government to further tighten control over these rebelled peoples. In the end, both the rebellion and the peoples that rebelled were crushed and their social, economic and political power was ended, with laws such as the scrip system with the

While rebellion is not always a healthy thing, as a result of Shay’s Rebellion we have learned many things about financial hardship after the Revolutionary War, how this affected masses of people, and how rebellion has shaped America today. Daniel Shays was one of the main leaders of the rebellion known as Shay’s Rebellion that occurred from 1786 to 1787, what Jonathan Smith says to be “one the most dramatic and significant incidents in the critical post-Revolutionary War period.” (Smith 77) With the Revolutionary War coming to an end in September of 1783, America, and its citizens, were struggling not only financially, but also politically. Financial struggles stemmed from the massive debt that the U.S. acquired

When the tax on distilled liquors was passed in 1791, people were upset and they thought that they had no representation. They did not agree with the fact that the government had taxed them and did not even consider what they would feel about it. The people knew that there should be no taxation without representation and the majority of the farmers made their living off of whiskey and so they were not pleased to hear about the tax. The people were so angry that they refused to pay the tax. In April of 1794, a U.S. Marshall was sent to arrest the men who did not pay and 500 armed rebels attacked the house of US tax inspector, general John Neville to make their message loud and clear.

The actions and members of Shay’s Rebellion would do almost anything to get what that wanted and that passion is what won us the Revolutionary. This is the reason why they had the right to do what they did. All of what they did started like this. Farmers were suffering because they could not sell their goods. This lead to them not being able to pay the money to help the Revolutionary war debts. Since farmers could not pay this money state officials took their land to pay for debts. Another thing that the state officials did was throw innocent farmers in jail because they could not pay the money. After this protests soon evolved and a Rebellion formed. Farmer thought the government was the same as what the King did. Farmers pleaded for new money

Recently, the debate and law changing of gun control is the United States have been a controversial topic. The history of law related to gun and arms in the U.S is like a pen that paints the rights of owning guns in the presence of the states. The book “A well-regulated militia”, which is written by Saul Cornell, says about the controversial debate in the history of the Second Amendment and historical facts involved in the 19th century about the right of bearing guns and standing militia. This essay will discuss some of the information, which is stated, in the book about the idea of gun ownership, the important rebellion, the Federalist and Anti- Federalist on standing army and gun control, the change of gun culture in early 19th century and

The Whiskey Rebellion has been

“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing” (Jefferson). Thomas Jefferson wrote these words in a letter to James Madison after hearing about Shay’s Rebellion while he was a foreign diplomat in Paris. After the rebellion happened, the “Shaysites” as they were called, were labeled as traitors to their country and the democratic form of government. But were they really? Many of the men fighting in the rebellion felt that they were being oppressed just as they had been under British rule.

     The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 helped bring about the demise of the aristocratic Federalist Government in favor of the democratic Republican Government, concerned with the needs of all of its citizens.

The rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada were in the interests of self-government but were doomed to failure from their beginning. Each of these two colonies encountered a great deal of problems right from the institution of the Constitution Act of 1791 and the problems continually got worse until the only choice to some seem to be rebellion. There were several problems that lead to the rebellions of 1837-38. In Lower Canada there was the agricultural crisis that caused a large number of starvations, to the French and English political and social problems within the colony. There were several different reasons that caused the rebellion in Upper Canada but these caused were mainly rooted in

The Whiskey Rebellion was a turning point in America's history that demonstrated the central government's willingness and ability to enforce its laws in spite of the obstacle of distance from its center of power.

In 1791, under the advisement of Alexander Hamilton, congress passed the whiskey tax. This tax, put a twenty-five percent tax on whiskey. Hamilton created this tax in hopes of the federal government gaining more money to help pay of the nation’s debt. However, in doing so, this angered many people, especially farmers in western Pennsylvania, because they distilled the extra grain they had to make whiskey and sell it to make extra income. These small operations in western Pennsylvania rebelled by erecting liberty poles and taring and feathering tax collectors. George Washington, who was president during this time, saw the outburst and decided to take action against the angered farmers. Washington gathered about 13,000 men from the militia to put an end to this rebellion. In doing so, Washington showed that the government help the power over the citizens. In The Whiskey Rebellion, by Thomas Slaughter, he describes different consequences that arise from the whiskey tax. Slaughter presents three main points, which include conflicts between the east and west, two political systems that begin to develop, and the actual rebellion.

First of all, an event known as the Whiskey Rebellion occurred during the Federalist Era. In Pennsylvania, farmers used corn to produce whiskey in order to utilize more useful modes of storage and transportation. In Hamilton’s plan of tariffs and taxes, there was an excise tax on whiskey produced in the United States. The tax triggered violent protests from farmers in Pennsylvania. George Washington used executive power to put down the rebellion.

Shays' Rebellion was the first uprising of the new nation. The battles were fought in Massachusetts. During the time period of 1786-1787, The United States government decided to raise taxes, in order to raise capital and

Towards the end of the 16th century, the United States government experienced continuous changes in laws(taxes) and several problems(battling and removal of Indians) associated with westward expansion. Conflict was created in response to the rising taxes issued by the government on goods such as whiskey. Most affected by the heavy taxation were the creators and distributors of whiskey - the average poor white farmer. An incident that occurred in 1794 involving enraged farmers in western Pennsylvania, threatened the tax collectors lives as well as the authority of the government. This incident came to be known as the Whiskey Rebellion.