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The Whiskey Rebellion’s Significance
The Whisky Rebellion was an uprising of Pennsylvanian farmers and distillers against the federal government during George Washington's presidency in 1794 for a whiskey tax that they found intolerably burdensome. The federal tax on whiskey hit western farmers hard because it cut into the profitability of turning unsold crops into…