The severance of the American colonies from Great Britain began, in large part, over the constitutional implications of British taxation. However, a concerted tax revolt in the early 1790s, the Whiskey Rebellion, was viewed as an existential threat to the fledgling United States. In this video, I explain why.
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In my book, Compact of the Republic, I explained how the Whiskey Rebellion encouraged the rift between the Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans: https://amzn.to/2xUcvF8
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