The Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion
1. Who is writing?
The writer is the president of the United States of America which is George Washington.

2. Who is the audience?
The audience for the Whiskey Rebellion is the people and government in the United States.

3. Who do the writers represent?
The writers represent the laws laying duties upon spirits distilled within the United States .

4. What is being said/argued/requested?
George Washington wants the Whiskey Rebellion to stop or he will “act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute of the United States, and to compel thereby an alteration in the measures of the legislature and a repeal of the laws”.

5. What proof and or justification is being used to legitimize the request?
To legitimize the request, George Washington formed a proclamation. It states, “He has also in testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the saw with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia the seventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States of America the nineteenth”.