Western Pennsylvania
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Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania encompassing the western half of the state. Pittsburgh is the region's principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about
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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
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…could stand such high freight costs. The insensitivity of the new U.S. federal government to the marketing problems in the west ultimately led to the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania, an event that seriously challenged the political viability of the United States after its successful establishment following…
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)