The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
Speaker: Todd DePastino, Ph.D. in American History from Yale University, award-winning author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, lecturer on American History, founder, and executive director of the Veterans Breakfast Club
Learn about a massive armed uprising and secessionist movement in the American West, which then included Pittsburgh. Sparked by Alexander Hamilton’s excise tax on whiskey in 1791, the rebellion was the first major test of the newly constituted federal government and is much misunderstood today. Hear about the Mingo Creek Association, the proposed independent republic of Westsylvania, “Tom the Tinker,” and General John Neville, whose mansion was burned to the ground in the “Battle of Bower Hill” in July 1794.
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Cumberland Woods Village
700 Cumberland Woods Drive
Allison Park, PA 15101
Phone: 412-635-8080
700 Cumberland Woods Drive
Allison Park, PA 15101
Phone: 412-635-8080
