The Whiskey Rebellion - a podcast by Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the 1790s money was short on the Appalachian frontier, so most farmers would distill their corn into whiskey and use that as a medium of exchange. Then, the federal government, looking for ways to pay debt incurred fighting the Revolution, levied a tax on that whiskey, which led to an uprising across the Appalachians, […]

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