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The Whiskey Rebellion

2024/1/1
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John Hopkins: 本集讲述了美国独立战争后不久,一场针对酒类税收的起义,这场起义成为新兴美国政府面临的第一次重大考验,也揭示了这个新兴国家在定义自身界限和哲学方面的尝试。起义不仅反映了对不公平税收的抵制,也反映了东西部地区、城市精英与农村社区、强势联邦政府支持者与地方自治支持者之间的社会分裂。 Narrator: 美国政府深陷债务危机,为解决财政问题,汉密尔顿提议对国内生产的蒸馏酒征收消费税。然而,这项税收在宾夕法尼亚州西部边远地区引发强烈反弹,因为威士忌是当地经济的支柱,也是重要的交易媒介。税收政策对小型酿酒商尤为不利,加剧了社会矛盾。起义活动逐渐升级,从最初的抵制发展到暴力冲突,政府官员和税务人员成为袭击目标。西北印第安战争和西班牙控制密西西比河等问题进一步加剧了当地居民对政府的不满。 起义活动达到高潮时,大卫·布拉德福德领导了对邮政人员的袭击,并号召支持者在布拉多克田集合,试图攻占匹兹堡。然而,由于政府军队的强大实力和起义内部的分歧,起义最终未能成功。华盛顿总统亲自率领军队前往镇压,虽然军队纪律松散,并发生了一些暴力事件,但起义领导人最终屈服。政府逮捕并审问了大量嫌疑人,但大多数起义领导人逃脱了。大多数被告被无罪释放,少数被判有罪者也获得总统赦免。威士忌税最终被废除。 John Hopkins: 威士忌叛乱是美国历史上一个重要的篇章,它揭示了美国早期社会的分裂,以及对政府角色的不同看法。这场起义促使美国重新评估其价值观,并开始定义其未来,这个过程持续至今。

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The Whiskey Rebellion began with a group of militiamen, including a veteran of the Revolutionary War, marching towards General John Neville's mansion to protest the Whiskey Tax. The conflict escalated with fires set to buildings and a fatal shooting, reflecting deep-seated resentment against the tax and the federal government.

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Just a few years after the Declaration of Independence, an uprising against a levy on liquor became the first great test for the government of the nascent United States of America. But what drove ordinary people to take up arms against the federal government? And why did founding fathers Washington and Hamilton march an army against their own people? This is the story of a new nation trying to define its own limits and philosophy.

From Noiser, this is a Short History Of the Whiskey Rebellion.

Written by Dan Smith.

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