What were farmers protesting at the whiskey rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion was a 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government

The Whiskey Rebellion was a popular uprising that began in 1791 and culminated in an insurrection in 1794 in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela River Valley.

The rebellion was the result of the new tax on whiskey. The rebellion occurred shortly after the Articles of the Confederation, which had been replaced by a stronger government: that of the federal government since 1789, under the Constitution of the United States in 1789.