Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum Flag Gallery Wrapped Canvas Size:40″×60″ The painting shows the sacrifice
Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum Flag Gallery Wrapped Canvas Size:40″×60″ The painting shows the sacrificeWith the Revolutionary War over, the newly created Federal government decided to assume the war debts of the individual states. In 1791, Congress imposed a tax on whiskey to pay the debt. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton came up with the idea. Farmers west of the Allegheny Mountains immediately took the tax as a personal assault. Whiskey was not only the drink of choice amongst the inhabitants of the West, but it served, as one wit put it,
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