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What is the whiskey rebellion

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1794 tax on Whiskey farmers were outraged

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-reflected tensions between federal and regional interests
-frontier farmers who produced corn to be made into whiskey violently protested Hamilton's tax on whiskey
-significance: showed the federal government could enforce the law in the western frontier
-1794↠tax on Whiskey
-farmers were furious
-Washington sends in 15,000 militiamen to enforce the law
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