Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum Flag Gallery Wrapped Canvas Size:40″×60″ Facts were denied

Facts were denied

The artwork on this shirt was professionally adapted from the original work archived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Like the false choice between sweet American freedom and Gorby's Soviet communism

The shirt is a perfect way to show your appreciation for history and politics

Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum Flag Gallery Wrapped Canvas Size:40″×60″ Facts were deniedWith the Revolutionary War over, the newly created Federal government decided to assume the war debts of the individual states. In 1791, Congress imposed a tax on whiskey to pay the debt. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton came up with the idea. Farmers west of the Allegheny Mountains immediately took the tax as a personal assault. Whiskey was not only the drink of choice amongst the inhabitants of the West, but it served, as one wit put it,