Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built AmericaThroughout its history America has been home to a series of little-known tax rebellions. These rebellions have played major roles in the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and many of their successors. They have helped bring about the Civil War, the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, and, ironically, the birth of the Internal Revenue Service. When the old Internal Revenue Bureau was strengthened to control moonshiner tax rebels in the Appalachias, it started a "Second Whiskey Rebellion" that continues even today. |
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The Roots of the American Revolution | 5 |
There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days | 17 |
Perfect Nonsense | 28 |
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Those Dirty Rotten taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America Charles Adams No preview available - 1999 |
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