Of Whiskey, Carriages, and Pine Tree Rebellions
Of Whiskey, Carriages, and Pine Tree Rebellions2011 Mike ChurchHey folks, its Mike Church with today's Church Doctrine.In 1791, citizens in Western PA and Upstate NY banded together to protest the new federal tax levied on their whiskey, this became known as The Whiskey Rebellion. The men who rebelled were demanding that the new Federal Leviathan relax its power to tax their whisky. In one case the rebellion turned violent when a regional tax collectors home and farm buildings were burned […]