* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

That the principal exportable product of the Ohio Valley was grain did not help matters, as grain was a high-volume, low-priced commodity, frequently not worth the cost of transporting it to far-away population centers ( this was a factor leading to farmers in the west turning their grains into Whiskey for easier transport and higher sales, and later the Whiskey Rebellion ).

By 1794, after Washington ordered the protesters to appear in U. S. district court, the protests turned into full-scale defiance of federal authority known as the Whiskey Rebellion.

It also was a highly coveted sundry and when an additional excise tax was levied against it, the Whiskey Rebellion erupted in 1791.

* October – A Federal army quells the Whiskey Rebellion in the United States.

During Washington's presidency, Hamilton had been able to influence the federal response to the Whiskey Rebellion ( which threatened the government's power to tax citizens ).

Local opposition to the tax led to the Whiskey Rebellion.

This started the so-called Whiskey Rebellion when the farmers who depended on whiskey income refused to pay and drove off a local town's marshal.

George Washington stayed in the county in response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.

Fayette County settlers provided the new United States government with first test in the 1793 Whiskey Rebellion, when farmers rebelled against tax collectors to protest of a new liquor tax.

Its most well-known agricultural exports were cherries and whiskey ( many citizens of Baldwin Township were part of the Whiskey Rebellion ).

In 1794 a whiskey tax was created, drawing in protest over 8, 000 settlers from western Pennsylvania to the North Braddock area, as part of the Whiskey Rebellion.

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 had roots in Upper St. Clair.

During the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, the troops of Pennsylvania and New Jersey assembled in Carlisle under the leadership of President George Washington.

Redstone Old Fort is mentioned in C. M. Ewing's The Causes of that so called Whiskey Insurrection of 1794 ( 1930 ) as the site of a July 27, 1791, meeting in " Opposition to the Whiskey Excise Tax ," during the Whiskey Rebellion.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a major test for the new government of the United States following the Revolution.

" The military suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion set a precedent that U. S. citizens who wished to change the law had to do so peacefully through constitutional means ; otherwise, the government would meet any threats to disturb the peace with force.

Its history includes episodes related to the French and Indian War, the Whiskey Rebellion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the American Civil War.

During the Whiskey Rebellion, local citizens raised a liberty pole in support of the rebels, and to protest conscription of soldiers to put down the rebellion.

James Chambers was appointed a Brigadier General of Militia during the Whiskey Rebellion.

* Somerset was a central stage for the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.

The Whiskey Rebellion was the first severe test of the federal authority under the newly adopted U. S. Constitution and under President George Washington.

He was conspicuous in the Whiskey Insurrection and having been prominent in some of the meetings of the insurgents, his arrest was ordered but in the meantime before any action could be taken he appeared November 6, 1794, before Thomas McKean, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and in the presence of William Bradford, Attorney General of the United States, voluntarily entered into recognizance to the United States for his appearance before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States at the next special session of the Circuit Court held for the district of Pennsylvania " then and there to answer such charges of treasonable and seditious practices and such other matters of misdemeanor as shall be alleged against him in behalf of the United States and that he will not depart that court without license.

In 1794, Federal troops passed through and quartered at the town's Barrett Hotel on the way to quell the Whiskey Insurrection.

" Famous Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania ", an 1880 illustration of a tarring and feathering | tarred and feathered tax collector being made to riding the rail | ride the rail

* Cooke, Jacob E. " The Whiskey Insurrection: A Re-Evaluation.

" The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Democratic Working-Class Insurrection ".

He was nominated for " Bawitdaba " for Best Hard Rock Performance, but lost to Metallica's " Whiskey in the Jar.

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

Carlisle remained a friend and helper of the band throughout ( she can be heard introducing the band on the Germicide: Live At The Whiskey recording, as produced by Kim Fowley ), only leaving because her new band, the Go-Go's, was becoming popular and, as she put it, " I was really disturbed by the heroin that was going on.

Grant's reputation as president by 1875 was at an all-time high for his previous veto of the Inflation Bill, the passage of the Resumption of Specie Act, and Secretary Bristow's successful raids that shut down the Whiskey Ring.

In 1876, Grant's reputation was damaged by his White House deposition defending his personal secretary Orville Babcock, indicted in the Whiskey Ring graft trials, and his Secretary of War William W. Belknap's resignation, impeachment by the House, and trial in the Senate over receiving profit money from the Fort Sill tradership.

Bristow discovered that the President's personal secretary Babcock was involved in the ring, Grant became defensive and eventually defended Babcock in an unprecedented 1876 deposition, which biographer McFeely contends was perjurious ; the deposition was read in St. Louis during the Whiskey Ring graft trials.

Whiskey, a bull terrier, was found with a wounded ally in The Night of the Wolves in Commandos 2: Men of Courage.

According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 19th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but less spontaneous than knock rummy.

After gold was discovered in 1862 on Whiskey Flat, it has been estimated that within ten days 1, 000 miners were camped along Canyon Creek.

Whiskey was an early product of the area, and whiskey barrels from the area were marked Old Bourbon when they were shipped downriver from the local port on the Ohio River.

Clayton is also known for its Whiskey Bottle Tombstone, which was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not !.

It was during this performance that Harris first publicly performed " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well " ( a song recorded two years earlier by Doc Wheeler's Sunset Orchestra ).

In April 1945, a year after the song was recorded, Decca released " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well ".

In November 1876, President Grant pardoned both William O. Avery and William McKee, who were convicted in connection with the Whiskey Ring tax evasion frauds in St. Louis ; having served six months of their two year sentences.

Although older accounts of the Whiskey Rebellion portrayed it as being confined to western Pennsylvania, there was opposition to the whiskey tax in the western counties of every other state in Appalachia ( Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia ).

* August 7, 1794: Whiskey Rebellion began: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebelled against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.

During the Whiskey Rebellion, local farmers inflicted the punishment on Federal tax agents.

On circuit he presided over the trials of individuals indicted for treason in the Whiskey Rebellion, a revolt by farmers in western Pennsylvania over the federal excise tax on whiskey, the principal product of their cash crop.

The unpopularity of this tax with farmers on the western frontier led to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.

In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.

The Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 — when settlers in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania protested against the new federal tax on whiskey, which the settlers shipped across the mountains to earn money.

The excise tax on whiskey was so despised it led to the Whiskey Rebellion which had to be quelled by Washington calling up the militia and repressing the rebellious farmers -- all were later pardoned.

Pennsylvania, with a history of federal tax evasion ( e. g., the Whiskey Rebellion ), tests federal income tax law, while New Jersey, with a history of discriminatory zoning ( resulting in the controversial Mount Laurel doctrine ), tests zoning and planning law.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Bristow promoted gold standard currency and throughly prosecuted and shut down the notorious Whiskey Ring, a tax evasion scheme that depleted that national Treasury.

In April 1875, Pierrepont was appointed U. S. Attorney General by President Ulysses S. Grant, who having teamed up with Secretary of Treasury, Benjamin Bristow, vigorously prosecuted the notorious Whiskey Ring, a national tax evasion swindle that involved whiskey distillers, brokers, and government officials, including President Grant's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock.

" Postmaster Jewell aided Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow shut down and prosecute the notorious Whiskey Ring ; a tax evasion scheme by whiskey distillers that depleted the U. S. Treasury millions of dollars.

During the Whiskey Rebellion, locals in western Pennsylvania would erect poles along the roads or in town centers as a protest against the federal government's tax on distilled spirits, and evoke the spirit embodied by the liberty poles of decades earlier.

Washington makes an extended allusion, possibly in reference to the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania which he led a national army to put down, on how important it is for the government to be careful in choosing the items that will be taxed, but he also reminds the American people that no matter how hard the government tries there will never be a tax which is not inconvenient, unpleasant, or seemingly an insult to those who must pay it.