Constitutional Era and Federal Era
Jorge E. Guarneros
Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was an act of many protests in 1786 to 1787. The protests were American farmers who did not agree with the state and local enforcement with there tax collections and judgment of debt. The rebellion took its name from its symbolic leader, Daniel Shays from Massachusetts. He was a former captain in the Continental army.
Daniel Shay
Leader of the protests. He took charge and went to Massachusetts where 4 people died and 20 injured.
Tax collectors
These people nobody liked, they were always hated on. They were usually captured by people and cover them with tar and feathers.
XYZ Affair
IT was a political and diplomatic thing during the 1797 and 1798, where John Adams had a confrontation between the united states and the Republican France which lead to a war called the Quasi War
John Adams
He sent 3 soldiers to France to make peace with France. It failed then later on he sent again 3 soldiers to make peace this time they made peace.
XYZ
This is a drawing of the soldiers that were called X, Y, and Z. Their names were not given for there protection.
Whiskey Rebellion
Tax protest in the United States that is known as Whiskey Rebellion or the whiskey Insurrection. It began in the 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. IT was the first tax on domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
George Washington
George Washington was the president of the United States at this time that the Whiskey Rebellion was taking place.
Alexander Hamilton
The cause of the whiskey rebellion was because of Alexander Hamilton. He started the tax to raise the fund to pay off the war debt during the American revolutionary war.