Question

In Jefferson's view, George Washington's action in addressing the Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 1

He was a mentor of he anti-Federalist farmers and tradesmen. The Scots-Irish farmers in Pennsylvania who rebelled when Federalist leader Hamilton and his Federalist Party bankers and merchants put oppressive taxes on their whiskey trade were among the fiercest anti-Federalists.

Our Civil War was the result of of the battle between the English descent commercial interests in the Northeast and relatives of those Scots-Irish famers who had moved down into western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, many because of those taxes and being defeated in the rebellion.

A half century later oppressive tariffs were put on the Scots-Irish dominant southeastern states, by the same kind of English descent bankers and merchants in the Northeast controlling the federal government, to compensate starving hordes of my Irish relatives flooding in there and destroying the economy by undercutting wages (the same thing is happening now mostly by huge hordes of Chinese excess labor sucking our industries to the tiny wages they desperately accept). In a sense you could claim that was just an extension of what brought so many Scots-Irish here when English rule was dominating and exploiting them in the previous century.

Southern states began seceding because of those tariffs and the war began when federal forces started preparations to blockade southern ports in reprisal for rejecting the tariffs and seceding. Slavery was a hot issue since colonial days but not the one initiating secession.

Are you still taught slavery was the issue as we were? It was not, although that might have been a primary issue for some of the states seceding later (importing slaves was outlawed after 1814) since slaves were very valuable "breeding stock" (the best could go for over a $1000 when decent horses probably sold for under $50).

Slavery was still common in most of the world. The US was the second country to completely outlaw it. Britain had before but only in Britain, not in its colonies where almost all the slaves were. Argentina was the first one to outlaw it.

PS: All your life you will be fed distorted information, even from your teachers and their textbooks, your parents, and all your other relatives and friends. See the second paragraph of my "Source" for why that is.
Source:
For decades I studied philosophies, cultures, and social institutions. I began that because of confusion resulting from my military experience under the shadow of neo-Marxist anti-military and anti-capitalism indoctrination in the universities.

I continue a forty year quest wading through the huge pile of stinking crap a wide variety of bigots piled on top of truth hiding it from nearly everyone's view. The pile was made by blaming people they don't like while excusing people they do like regardless of where the fault really lies.

Answer 2

this should help

Answer 3

thanks crazy Mexican