Fries's Rebellion
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Fries's Rebellion, also called House Tax Rebellion, the Home Tax Rebellion and, in Pennsylvania German, the Heesses-Wasser Uffschtand, was a tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 an
Historical marker is in front of McCoole's, previously known as the Red Lion Inn in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a central point of Fries's Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax impo
Fries's Rebellion
…tax-related rebellions in the 18th century United States, the earlier two being Shays's Rebellion (central and western Massachusetts, 1786–87) and the Whiskey Rebellion (western Pennsylvania, 1794). It was commemorated in 2003 with a Pennsylvania historical marker erected in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where it first…
George Washington reviews the troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Alexander Hamilton in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull
Artist's conception of an American whiskey still in the 1790s, as illustrated in an 1887 history book (Scribner's Popular History of the United States).
Pittsburgh in 1790, engraving from a watercolor by Lewis Brantz (University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections)