The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins
In 1862 the new Bureau of Internal Revenue began t... ...2 the new Bureau of Internal Revenue began taxing whiskey as a means of funding the Civil War. The tax rose... ...was the latest in a series of raids known as the Whiskey Wars . Illicit distilling had become so widespread, and... ...th $5,000 in taxes&m...
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