The Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
- A
Was a religious dispute among western Presbyterians over temperance that briefly threatened the new federal union
- B
Started a brief border war with Britain over the Canadian frontier whiskey trade and ended with a hasty truce
- C
Was a slave revolt in the western counties crushed by state militia forces and quickly forgotten in national memory
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Was an uprising of western Pennsylvania farmers against an excise tax on whiskey, suppressed by Washington with federal troops
Explanation
Demonstrated federal authority — a sharp contrast with the Articles' weakness.