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Whisky Insurrection
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Whisky Insurrection

In US history, an uprising in western Pennsylvania 1794 against the imposition by the federal government of the excise law on domestic spirits. The government sent a body of militia who, without bloodshed, pacified the rebels. This was the first time that federal authority was used against a state.


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