Description 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.
This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most signifi. government under the Constitution.
The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.
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Description 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
