7. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 7: Whiskey Rebellion

**Quiz for Document 7.1: Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature (1791)**

Quiz for Document 7.1: Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature (1791)

Document 7.1: Resolution to the Pennsylvania Legislature (1791)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 7.1

1. In their resolution to the Pennsylvania legislature, farmers suggested that the tax would create a situation in which

American farmers would migrate into the unorganized western territories.

agriculture in the western parts of the United States would eventually decline.

Americans living in urban areas would stop drinking and buying whiskey.

middle- and upper-class men would increase their wealth due to the tax.

Question 7.2

2. In their protest against the whiskey tax, the Pennsylvania farmers suggested that their cause was similar to the cause of which of the following groups?

Revolutionaries in France

Spanish peasants

American colonists

Native Americans on the frontier

Question 7.3

3. Why, according to their resolution to the Pennsylvania legislature, did the farmers see the whiskey tax as illegitimate?

It taxed a domestic product.

They were Antifederalists who had opposed the Constitution.

They found it insulting.

It levied a tax on whiskey but not on beer.

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