What was the main cause of the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 1

The Whiskey Rebellion during George Washington's Administration where farmers, who had begun to use whiskey produced from surplus grain as a medium of exchange and store of value. This action made the whiskey a currency in the government's eyes and then they levied taxes against it at the instigation of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The farmers protested this new tax using the same principles of "No Taxation without Representation" that were the basis for the American Revolution itself.

Answer 2

A federal excise was placed on whiskey and many of the corn farmers in Pennsylvania balked at paying it.

Answer 3

the main idea of the whiskey rebellion from the framers point of view was not to pay the tax on whiskey, they thought that it was a absurd tax...