In a time when the frontier was expanding into Indian territory by stealing Indian land, and the government began to develop. The Articles of Confederation failed in this time and then a government was created and under the power of George Washington who made many decisions to better the nation’s government. The nation was becoming larger as the government was growing stronger, but all of these events have acts of opposition on newly imposed laws and taxes, government actions, and the nation’s needs. Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances through significant protests like the march of the Paxton boys in Pennsylvania, Shays’ Rebellion supporting the need for a strong government, and the Whiskey Rebellion opposing the new whiskey tax. One significant violent protest settlers in the eighteenth-century resorted to in order to express their grievances was the march of the Paxton boys which occurred in Pennsylvania …show more content…
The rebellion was a reaction to the whiskey tax imposed by Congress to repay public debt, but the tax unfairly placed financial burden on the whiskey farmers. The farmers then took up arms attacking government tax collectors and encounters with government officials. This expressed the need for federal action in which George Washington made an army to put down the rebellion, but the rebels were mainly gone because they had heard of the army fleeting to western Pennsylvania. This rebellion is the reason that the federal government had become stronger than the Articles of Confederation because of the ability to handle the political disturbances. The government still had room to become stronger, but, at this point, this was the strongest the American government had ever