In July of 1794, a force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector. The rebellion grew ... President George Washington instead put state militias on the ...

In 1794, George Washington suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion (when Pennsylvania farmers attacked federal officials after an excise tax was imposed in 1791, on whiskey) by invoking the power of the ...

After finishing his presidency and returning to his Mount Vernon estate, George Washington started a short-lived but extremely successful whiskey distillery. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ..