Prairie Fire
Author | : Bob Beal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Cree Indians |
ISBN | : 9780771011092 |
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Author | : Bob Beal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Cree Indians |
ISBN | : 9780771011092 |
Author | : Bill Waiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781771770217 |
Author | : Wen Djang Chu |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3111414507 |
Author | : Canada. Department of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Hogeland |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439193290 |
A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority. In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing the tax collectors who attempted to collect the first federal tax ever laid on an American product—whiskey. To the hard-bitten people of the depressed and violent West, the whiskey tax paralyzed their rural economies, putting money in the coffers of already wealthy creditors and industrialists. To Alexander Hamilton, the tax was the key to industrial growth. To President Washington, it was the catalyst for the first-ever deployment of a federal army, a military action that would suppress an insurgency against the American government. With an unsparing look at both Hamilton and Washington, journalist and historian William Hogeland offers a provocative, in-depth analysis of this forgotten revolution and suppression. Focusing on the battle between government and the early-American evangelical movement that advocated western secession, The Whiskey Rebellion is an intense and insightful examination of the roots of federal power and the most fundamental conflicts that ignited—and continue to smolder—in the United States.
Author | : Charles Pelham Mulvany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Thomas P. Slaughter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1988-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199923353 |
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode in which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of the American Revolution. The book not only offers the broadest and most comprehensive account of the Whiskey Rebellion ever written, taking into account the political, social and intellectual contexts of the time, but also challenges conventional understandings of the Revolutionary era.
Author | : Marjoleine Kars |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2003-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860379 |
Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the Great Awakening, against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. The conflict culminated on May 16, 1771, when a colonial militia defeated more than 2,000 armed farmers in a pitched battle near Hillsborough. At least 6,000 Regulators and sympathizers were forced to swear their allegiance to the government as the victorious troops undertook a punitive march through Regulator settlements. Seven farmers were hanged. Using sources that include diaries, church minutes, legal papers, and the richly detailed accounts of the Regulators themselves, Marjoleine Kars delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists. She examines the rebellion's economic, religious, and political roots and explores its legacy in North Carolina and beyond. The compelling story of the Regulator Rebellion reveals just how sharply elite and popular notions of independence differed on the eve of the Revolution.
Author | : Public Archives of Canada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Public Archives of Canada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1152 |
Release | : 1901 |
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