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Summary :What is the Issue In 1791, during Washington's presidency Congress passed a tax on whiskey and distilled spirits . The money earned from these taxes was intended to help lower the federal deficit. These taxes fell generally on small farmers on the young nation's western frontier . These farmers often distilled whiskey from their surplus corn crop . The whiskey was then used as medicine and as a form of currency on the cash-strapped frontier . Farmers in these areas also converted substantial portions of their grain into whiskey to make it easier to get to more populous towns and cities

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The farmers were made and revoltings because most of them were people who traded to make ends meet when they traded whiskey they were taxed standardly since farmers traded they had no real money to pay the tax put upon them by the government

"Fun fact"the term moonshine was made around this time.

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