1. From A History of the World in Six Glasses - Tom Standage
The Whiskey Rebellion
From A History of the World in Six Glasses - Tom Standage

2. George Washington -No stranger to liquor
-campaign team handed out drinks to voters during his 1758 campaign for a seat in the House of Burgesses
-28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 34 of wine, 46 of beer, and 2 of cider
-entire county had 391 votes

3. George Washington (continued)
-had his own distillery

4. Shays’ Rebellion
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

5. Pennsylvania - 1791 -over 5,000 pot stills in western PA
-a pack horse could carry four bushels of grain, but could carry twenty four bushels distilled into whiskey
-became a rural currency (even pay for clergymen)