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Long title | An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties hereto-fore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same. |
Nicknames | Excise Whiskey Tax of 1791 |
Enacted by | the 1st United States Congress |
Effective | March 3, 1791 |
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Public law | Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 1–15 |
Statutes at Large | 1 Stat. 199, Chap. 15 |
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Tariff of 1791orExcise Whiskey Tax of 1791 was a United States statute establishing a taxation policy to further reduce Colonial America public debt as assumed by the residuals of American Revolution. The Act of Congress imposed dutiesortariffs on domestic and imported distilled spirits generating government revenue while fortifying the Federalist Era.
The H.R. 110 tariff legislation originated as a panacea for the Hamiltonian economic program. The Debt Assumption policy was introduced as a series of public credit and national debt reports authored by Alexander Hamilton from 1790 to 1795.[1][2]
Colonial America was observant of the militia insurrection in response to the progressive debt collection and tax rulings charged by the Federalist taxation plan.
Shays' Rebellion and Whiskey Rebellion were notable uprisings where American colonists, often referred as the anti-federalists, express their sentiments concerning the public debt reconciliation plan while the newly formed government fulfilled the demands of Funding Act of 1790 during the late 18th century.[3] The colonial protests were necessitated by the enforcement of the Federalist taxation plan as submitted by Alexander Hamilton on January 14, 1790 better known as the First Report on the Public Credit.[4][5][6]
Colonial and European Ambassadors, Diplomats, Financiers, Merchants, and Statesmen
William Carmichael | Gouverneur Morris |
Étienne Clavière | Jacques Necker |
William Duer | Joseph Nourse |
Diego de Gardoqui | William Short |
Henry Hope | Nicolaas van Staphorst |
Jean-Joseph de Laborde | Willem Willink |
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Chronology of 18th century colonial laws related to the duties or tariffs applied to domestic and imported distilled spirits.
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