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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (381)	1/16/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: c.horn	Respond to of 518

One Major standing around with his hands in his pockets does not a conspirasy make.. And the Whiskey Rebellion again was not the US Military.. No one was killed in the action anyway.. Whiskey Rebellion was a series of disturbances in 1794 aimed against a federal excise tax on whiskey. The tax burden fell largely on western Pennsylvania, one of the chief whiskey-producing regions of the country. Grain farmers depended on whiskey for almost all their income, and they considered the tax an attack on their liberty and economic well-being. Violent riots prompted President George Washington to request that the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia mobilize contingents of militia. In October 1794 Washington ordered the militia to proceed to the western counties, where they seized a number of people. The so-called Whiskey Rebellion is important in United States history because it provided the first real test of the federal government's prerogatives and law enforcement power.