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Whiskey Rebellion and Frontier Grain Marketing History
A historical overview explains how colonists transformed grain into whiskey to move products to market, highlighting distilling's role in Appalachia and Pennsylvania. It notes tax actions in 1756 and 1791, the 1794 crackdown led by Washington and Hamilton, and the swift suppression of resistance, with distillers fading by 1840 as roads and markets improved. It ends with agricultural production data for sorghum, soybeans, dry beans, sugar beets, and fall potatoes from recent forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Scotland
Ireland
Thomas Mifflin
Washington
Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Daniel Morgan
Henry Lee