The Jeffersonian concept of the yeoman farmer as the bulwark of American society was rapidly giving way to a new industrial and urban age. Populists captured state legislatures in many mid-western states, and also used the rhetoric of nativism and a golden age myth. . ..…

To surpress the revolt and collect the tax, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton nationalized the militia and sent army into western Pennsylvania to crush the nucleus of the rebellion. The majority of Americans now recognized that Hamiltonians held Tory ideology and were using the..…