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The whiskey rebellion- were the Americans just opposed to taxes? Compare and contrast this tax to the stamp act taxes.

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Large, commercial distillers in the eastern United States generally accepted the new excise tax since they could pass its cost onto their cash-paying customers. However, most smaller producers west of the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains, then the Nation's frontier, opposed the "whiskey tax.

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