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The first congress passed tax on whiskey.
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The first meeting of those who opposed the whiskey tax happend. -
Formal elections took place in Allegheny, Fayette, and Westmoreland Pennsylvania.
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Excise Officer Robert Johnson was riding through his collection route in western Pennsylvania when he was surrounded by 11 men dressed as women. The mob stripped him naked and then tarred and feathered him before stealing his horse and abandoning him in the forest.
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The president called for soldiers to disperse and go home invoking the militia act of 1792.
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The whiskey tax was finally repealed after it had became impossible to collect
