I don’t think my history teachers spent a minute on the Whiskey Rebellion. It was treated as a sidebar, something the early Republic had to deal with between major events and quickly move on from, like the Barbary pirates (send the Marines!) and access to the Mississippi (make a treaty with Spain!). In the rebels’ case — or so the impression was left me…
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