Hamilton's efforts to pay off the national debt via unpopular taxes led to what?

In 1791, Hamilton's whiskey tax, applied to all distilled spirits and intended to help cover the war debt, was passed into law. Needless to say, it was very unpopular; so unpopular, that the Whiskey Rebellion arose in the coming years, forcing the President to act, as he didn't want this precedent to be set in the new nation. The resistance was smashed in 1794 at the Battle of Bower Hill.

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