The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation
From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 2
Among the grievances that fueled the rebels we can include an early modern version of a bailout. Government issued bonds had been used to pay the soldiers in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. During the economic depression of the 1780s, speculators had bought these up for pennies on ...
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