Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it. Weak national government violent tax protest from 1791-1794. the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore 12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation. All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals. Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots. authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time

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Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die" Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it. Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries. British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen

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