1. How does the Whiskey Rebellion parallel the American Revolution? Firstly, the Whiskey Rebellion was the culmination of a lengthy rural protest against Hamilton’s hard money policy. This protest occurred in 1794 by Western Pennsylvania Farmers and grain distillers who objected to a high federal tax on the whiskey they produced. The western Pennsylvania farmers attacked officials and tarred and feathered a man charged with collecting the Whiskey tax, there by resulting to closed courts, blocked roads and organized mass protests. The idea of the Whiskey tax was to help reduce the federal government national debt. The Whiskey rebels revealed the deep current of resentment against Federalist policies that was running through rural America, which