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

**Quiz for Document 7.2: The Pittsburgh Resolution (1794)**

Quiz for Document 7.2: The Pittsburgh Resolution (1794)

Document 7.2: The Pittsburgh Resolution (1794)

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

Question 7.4

1. Why did the authors of the Pittsburgh Resolution threaten to banish any person who was “unfriendly to the common cause”?

Hamilton had been gathering intelligence from local militias across Pennsylvania.

Thomas Jefferson had advised them to fight in the spirit of the Revolution.

They suspected that George Washington had planted spies within their ranks.

The rebellion had turned violent and an armed battled appeared to be imminent.

Question 7.5

2. The Pittsburgh Resolution suggests that Pennsylvania’s farmers who oppose the whiskey tax are organizing a protest comparable to which of the following past events?

The Boston Massacre

Shays’s Rebellion

The threatened Newburgh mutiny

The First Continental Congress

Question 7.6

3. The Pittsburgh Resolution supports which of the following conclusions?

The whiskey rebels were a vocal minority whose tactics intimidated the local populace.

The whiskey rebels did not accept the legitimacy of the federal government.

The whiskey rebels were tremendously popular among the people of western Pennsylvania.

The whiskey rebels were a loose and disorganized group who posed little threat to the United States.

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