The Whiskey Rebellion

Question 13 options:

A. started a disagreement among supporters of the Federalists.

B. unified northern merchants and southern farmers.

C. caused the formation of the Democratic Societies.

D. led to the development of two distinct political groups.

The answer is D.

The whiskey rebellion took place from 1791, when a tax over distilled spirits (mainly whiskey in that time in the U. S.) became law, intended to generate revenue for the Revolutionary War debt. It ended three years later, in 1794, when President Washington led a force of over 13,000 men against some 500 violent protestors in Pennsylvania.

This fight, that didn't really take place, led to the formation of two well defined political parties in the United States, the Federalist group stopped being the hegemonic one, making Thomas Jefferson (of the newly formed Republican party) the next president.