The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the West
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To really understand the Whiskey Rebellion, we can't trivialize it to a single tax. It grew out of longstanding tensions between the West and East, between the frontier and the more-developed regions. The Whiskey Rebellion wasn't the first time these tensions had come up, or even the first time they'd given rise to actual violence.
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the West
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the…
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the West
To really understand the Whiskey Rebellion, we can't trivialize it to a single tax. It grew out of longstanding tensions between the West and East, between the frontier and the more-developed regions. The Whiskey Rebellion wasn't the first time these tensions had come up, or even the first time they'd given rise to actual violence.