In July of 1794, a force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector. The rebellion grew in numbers, if not in actions, and threatened to spread to other states.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax uprising against George Washington's government that marked the young USA's first major ...

Tax collection and the registration of stills went slowly ... President Washington pardoned both, writing: "The misled have abandoned their errors." The end of the Whiskey Rebellion helped secure the ...

A tax and a rebellion A rebellion ensued as ... as the birthplace of rye whiskey and home of the 1790s Whiskey Rebellion,” said Meredith Meyer Grelli, founder and chair of the Whiskey Rebellion ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

The low bar for pardons under presidents from both parties invites people do bad things because the risk of consequence is ...