Shaping a New Republic

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Whiskey Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania, 1794 Western PA Frontier farmers resist excise Tax collector tarred East / Federal Washington leads 13,000 militia Result: federal authority demonstrated

Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion most directly demonstrated:

  • A

    The federal government's willingness and ability to enforce its laws

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  • B

    The futility of taxing alcohol in any region

  • C

    The weakness of the new Constitution in suppressing dissent

  • D

    Congressional supremacy over the executive branch

Explanation

Unlike Shays's Rebellion under the Articles, the federal government raised an army and quashed the uprising, showing that the Constitution gave the union real coercive power.

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