Tax Revolt

The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773, when American colonists dumped 342 chests of Bri...

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 to 1794 was a protest against the first federal excise tax in the Unit...

The poll tax, or head tax, was a fixed tax per person regardless of income. The poll tax of 1381 hel...

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765, bringing together delegates from nine c...

Shays Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. Farmers in western Massachu...

Fries Rebellion, also called the House Tax Rebellion, occurred in Pennsylvania in 1799. German Ameri...

Resistance to the whiskey tax was particularly strong in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tenness...

South Carolinas nullification of federal tariffs in 1832 was the most serious challenge to federal a...

The Sons of Liberty were organized in 1765 to resist the Stamp Act. The group was founded in Boston ...

The Boston Tea Party targeted three ships carrying East India Company tea: the Dartmouth, the Eleano...

The California tax revolt of 1978 was led by Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann. Their initiative, Proposit...