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The Whiskey Rebellion
What drove ordinary people to take up arms against the federal government?
Just a few years after the Declaration of Independence, an uprising against a levy on liquor became the first great test for the government of the nascent United States of America.
But what drove ordinary people to take up arms against the federal government? And why did founding fathers Washington and Hamilton march an army against their own people? This is the story of a new nation trying to define its own limits and philosophy.
This is a Short History Of the Whiskey Rebellion.
Written by Dan Smith.
