Q 01/05

Which president rode west at the head of a 13,000-man militia army to crush the Whiskey Rebellion?

A) George Washington

B) Andrew Jackson

C) William Henry Harrison

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer · why

A) George Washington

George Washington was the first sitting president to lead an army on campaign. Three years later he opened a whiskey distillery of his own at Mount Ve...

Q 02/05

Which future explorer of the American West marched against the whiskey rebels as a young Virginia militiaman?

A) William Clark

B) Meriwether Lewis

C) Zebulon Pike

D) John Wesley Powell

Answer · why

B) Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis joined the regular army the year after the expedition and there served under William Clark, his future partner on the trail to the Pa...

Q 03/05

Which punishment, borrowed from 1770s protests, did a disguised gang inflict on whiskey tax collector Robert Johnson?

A) Branding on the forehead

B) A day in the stocks

C) Tarring and feathering

D) Riding out on a rail

Answer · why

C) Tarring and feathering

Tarring and feathering copied the protests of the American Revolution, and the man sent to serve warrants on Johnson's attackers got the same treatmen...

Q 04/05

Which Treasury Secretary proposed the whiskey tax and then rode west with the army sent to enforce it?

A) Robert Morris

B) Timothy Pickering

C) Oliver Wolcott Jr.

D) Alexander Hamilton

Answer · why

D) Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton called the excise a luxury tax and the least objectionable one available. He stayed on with the army as a civilian adviser after th...

Q 05/05

What became of the only two whiskey rebels convicted in federal court and sentenced to hang in 1795?

A) They were hanged

B) They escaped from jail

C) They were deported

D) They were pardoned

Answer · why

D) They were pardoned

They were pardoned by the president, who told Congress he wished to govern with moderation and tenderness. One was a simple-minded man talked into his...