CH 7

In Chapter 7 Alexander Hamilton proposed that the federal  government make permanent national and state debt from the revolutionary period.  Hamilton's program sparked the Whiskey Rebellion.  The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest by western farmers that gave Washington and Hamilton the opportunity to assert the power of national government. The law also stipulated that trials for evading the teax would be conducted in federal courts.  The Whiskey Rebellion was a milestone in determining the limits of public opposition to federal policies.