HIST 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Embargo Act Of 1807

• School: Temple University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1101
• Professor: Andrew Isenberg

Document Summary

Many more people are living in ciies and involved in manufacturing rather than living on in rural areas and farming. 1791-government placed a tax on whiskey: hamilton and washington raised a force of 13,000 to put down a protest-whiskey rebellion- of western pennsylvania farmers who opposed federal taxes on alcohol. Alien and sediion acts-1798: federalists aroused further resistance, permited the deportaion of aliens and made illegal certain criicisms of the government. 1798-the kentucky resoluion: writen by thomas jeferson. Virginia resoluion-writen by james madison: both proclaimed that the alien and sediion acts violated the irst amendment. 5% of people lived in the ciies: the businesses were built of of the idea of arms-family businesses. Many people sill lived on farms: the produced everything on the farm. Alcohol: they used their products to sell and gain other products that could not be made on the farm.