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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

by Thomas P. Slaughter. 291 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Thomas P. Slaughter

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1988
Subjects:   Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794
Table of contents
Introduction 3
PART ONE: CONTEXT 9
One The Tax Man Cometh 11
Two The Quest for Frontier Autonomy 28
Three Sectional Strife 46
Four Lice, Labor, and Landscape 61
Five George Washington and the Western Country 75
PART TWO: CHRONOLOGY 91
Six Indians and the Excise 93
Seven Assembly and Proclamation 109
Eight Liberty, Order, and the Excise 125
Nine Alternative Perspectives 143
Ten Federalism Besieged 158
PART THREE: CONSEQUENCE 173
Eleven Rebellion 175
Twelve Response 190
Thirteen A Tale of Two Riots and a Watermelon Army 205
Conclusion 222
AFTERWORD 229
NOTES 233
INDEX 279
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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
Book by Thomas P. Slaughter; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794
...The Whiskey Rebellion. Bibliography...Includes index. 1. Whiskey Insurrection, 1794. 2. Pennsylvania...resort to arms in 1794. The story of the Whiskey Rebellion is an oft-told...Mountains in 1794. The Whiskey Rebellion would result...
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Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising
Book by Leland D. Baldwin; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939
Subjects: Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794
...the time of the Whiskey Insurrection...Sunday, June 8, 1794, contains this...Presbyterian Rebellion. Their religion...in February, 1794, ruled him out...the verge of rebellion and led to the...import ing rum, whiskey distilling became...of unlicensed whiskey. Brackenridge...
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Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond
Book by Mark Ames; Soft Skull Press, 2005
Subjects: Murder--United States, United States--Social Conditions--1980-, Violent Crimes--United States
...about. -Thomas P Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion, The point is that real-time...expressed. When there was violence or rebellion, it was nearly always unfocused...a context to justify their rebellion against the institution that...
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Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
Book by Marjoleine Kars; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: North Carolina--History--Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771
...powerful Indians in Bacon's Rebellion opened up the southern backcountry...as butter, cheese, cloth, whiskey, brandy, leather, pork, beef...own claims on Rocky River. Rebellion was spreading, and McCulloh...to try to channel popular rebellion along moderate lines and...
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Drinking, Homicide & Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Book by William B. Taylor; Stanford University, 1979
Subjects: Indian Criminals--Mexico, Indians Of Mexico--Alcohol Use, Indians Of Mexico--Social Conditions, Mexico--Social Conditions, Peasantry--Mexico
...4. REBELLION 113...Jurisdiction of Huajuapan, 1794 51...181 DRINKING, HOMICIDE REBELLION in Colonial Mexican Villages...colonial period, and rural rebellion imposes its own requirement...
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journal articles on: (Whiskey Rebellion Pa 1794)  - 7 results

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Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory
Journal article by Saul Cornell; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 16, 1999
Subjects: Constitutional history--Analysis, Right to bear arms--Laws, regulations, etc., United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 2
...contemporary responses to the Whiskey Rebellion, see notes 73-88 and...12, 1788) DHRC Mfm:Pa. 328. (71.) Charles...1791), in DHRC Mfm:Pa. 706. (73.) The best account of the Rebellion is Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier...
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Recovering American Administrative Law: Federalist Foundations, 1787-1801
Journal article by Jerry L. Mashaw; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006
Subjects: Administrative law--History, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Judicial review of administrative acts--Laws, regulations and rules, Public administration--Laws, regulations and rules
...individual claims. A 1794 statute appropriated...the insurgents in the Whiskey Rebellion. (126) Once again the...refugees and victims of the Whiskey Rebellion reveal, Congress did...the compensation of whiskey tax collectors mentioned...
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Original Sin and Judicial Independence: Providing Accountability for Justices
Journal article by Paul D. Carrington, Roger C. Cramton; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009
Subjects: Judicial process--Laws, regulations and rules, Judicial restraint--Laws, regulations and rules
...generally WILLIAM HOGELAND, THE WHISKEY REBELLION: GEORGE WASHINGTON, ALEXANDER...75.) Neutrality Act of 1794, ch. 50, 1 Stat 381. (76...Midnight Judges, 109 U. PA. L. REV. 494, 497 (1960...Disability Act of 1980, 131 U. PA. L. REV. 283 (1982). For...
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Suicide Pact: New Readings of the Second Amendment
Journal article by Michael A. Bellesiles; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 16, 1999
Subjects: Constitutional history--Social aspects, Right to bear arms--Laws, regulations, etc.
...cited in note 13). (51.) Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution 190-204...Schlag, Normativity and the Politics of Form, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 801 (1991). (61.) Levinson and Balkin, Canons...
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Collective Identity and Social Movements
Journal article by Francesca Polletta, James M. Jasper; Annual Review of Sociology, 2001
Subjects: Boundaries--Social aspects, Culture--Political aspects, Group identity--Analysis, Social movements--Analysis
...national boundary in the Whiskey Rebellion. See Hanagan et al 1998...Identity. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press Lichterman...pp. 27-34. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press Marwell...89-108. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press Mueller...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Whiskey Rebellion Pa 1794)  - 5 results

 
 
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Carlisle , City, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...borough (1990 pop. 18,419), seat of Cumberland co., S Pa.; inc. 1782. Its manufactures include electronics and...Carlisle was a headquarters for Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Molly Pitcher is buried in the Old Graveyard. The...
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Irvine, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...medicine in Ireland and after 1764 practiced in Carlisle, Pa. He was called to service as colonel of a Pennsylvania...and was in command of Pennsylvania troops in the Whiskey Rebellion (1794). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Washington , Cities, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...City (1990 pop. 15,864), seat of Washington co., SW Pa., in a bituminous coal region; settled 1769, laid out...House, erected in 1788, was a meeting place in the Whiskey Rebellion (1794). Le Moyne House (1812) was the home of Dr. Francis...
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Pennsylvania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to the Civil War Opposition to federal taxation in rural Pennsylvania led to violence in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and the Fries Rebellion of 1798 (see Fries , John), while anti-eastern sentiment forced removal of the state capital to...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...two into the World Trade Center , which was destroyed, and one into the Pentagon ; the fourth crashed near Shanksville , Pa. Some 3,000 persons were killed or missing as a result of the attacks. Insisting that no distinction would be made between terrorists...


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