After finishing his presidency and returning to his Mount Vernon estate, George Washington started a short-lived but extremely successful whiskey distillery. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from ...

George Washington wasn’t ... proved more challenging. Alcohol became such big business that, in 1794, the government’s attempt to tax it triggered a Whiskey Rebellion by Pennsylvania farmers.

In 1791, he successfully suppressed the Whiskey ... Washington launched the fledgling nation on a promising course of peace and prosperity for future generations. Legacy George Washington established ...

In 1794, George Washington suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion (when Pennsylvania farmers attacked federal officials after an excise tax was imposed in 1791, on whiskey) by invoking the power of the ...

He proposed an excise tax on whiskey produced in the United States ... Hamilton advocated the use of military force; President George Washington instead put state militias on the ready and ...