Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum T-Shirt rothardian This unique 16x12 inch prohibition-era

This unique 16x12 inch prohibition-era pictorial map includes many place names and plays on words that capture the humor and mood of the time

" in honor of Captain James Lawrence

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Whiskey Rebellion No Asylum T-Shirt rothardian This unique 16x12 inch prohibition-eraWith the Revolutionary War over, the newly created Federal government decided to assume the war debts of the individual states. In 1791 Congress placed an excise 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 ofthe West, but it served, as one wit