The Whiskey Rebellion & The Fight Against The First Federal Tax | King_Trout
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Join King_Trout as he discusses the Whiskey Rebellion was the first time the history of the United States that a tax had been levied on a Federal Level; setting in motion of chain of events that would ruin the next two hundred and some years. Alexander Hamilton has the brilliant idea to tax whiskey federally in The United States, sparking riots, protests, and almost a massacre.
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00:00 Introduction
00:36 Introduction of The Whiskey Tax
03:55 Frontier Life & The Taxman Cometh
08:13 On The Brink of War
11:25 Conclusion
This is why commies made a play about Hamilton.
If by commies you mean neocons....
@@OurNewestMember neocons is commies. It's just shorthand at this point for socialists and collectivists.
@@OurNewestMember Woke lefties are hardly neocons. They are all trash, but let's not muddy the waters.
@@OurNewestMember Nope, certainly a bunch of communist.
@OurNewestMember what's the difference again?
The Revolutionary War was fought over three main factors, high taxes, censorship, and firearm confiscation, fast forward to 2024 and those are the same three issues we are facing today!
Censorship and taxation were on the lower end of the spectrum compared to firearms confiscation. Yet all the same the people were being mistreated due to the British Empire trying to retain complete authority over the veterans who had just won the French Indian war.
Revolution 2: Electric Boogaloo
Gee. Its almost like empowering a distant ruling class with near unlimited power is a bad idea.
Except the problem we have now is that Trump’s 2018 tax cuts let corporations pay 0 taxes, which made them strong enough to price gouge us.
There’s a lot more issues we deal with today then back in those days
As an Appalachian this is fabulous! I spend hours explaining to people who move to the Shenandoah Valley the local culture and where it came from. This video is absolutely going to be added to my resources!
Moved to East Tennessee five months ago, can’t believe how many of my friends down here don’t even know the history behind why Tennessee is called the volunteer state
Dude I lived here all my life in Bedford co and never found out much
Feds overstepping their mandate from the beginning. Taxation is theft.
Leading any comment with "as an (relevant to subject)" is fucking so cringe to me
@@jsavage428 You can kick rocks, bud! I've explained this to many people who didn't believe me because they didn't learn it in school. As someone who is deeply connected to Appalachian history, this video is fabulous.
Tar and feathering tax collectors is based.
This rekindled my memories of being the only kid in my entire class paying attention to this back and in 7th grade catholic school. I’m here for this.
I was also the only kid paying attention in 7th grade history class at Catholic school.
@@king_trout thank you
Same. 7th grade public school.
Please, please, please continue to call these “That Time That Thing Happened” 🖤😂
This one also had the interesting stuff with the people in that place
Any vid that ends on the note “fuck Alexander Hamilton” is of the highest class and taste. I hope to see more vids, king
Agreed… F that money grubber
"Hamilton was such a bitch..."
- Thomas Jefferson (probably)
But he got a musical! So he must be good.
Thomas Jefferson not Hamilton!
@@jensgronning4436 Both of them.
Pennsylvanian here. The western Pa area hasn't changed much and the rest of the state still wonders "WTF is going on in western Pennsylvania" 😂
This commonwealth is fucked.
We’re more cautious of whatever is happening in philly on the east side
Born and raised Western Pa, and I must say Jersey can have the eastern half. Bunch of commies.
Meh, Lancaster here. I just question Philly and Erie.
@@lonestar1775 fair!!
I grew up in the Whiskey Rebellion area. Fayette County, PA. This is my history and the reason I fly their flag on my porch.
Once again, Alexander Hamilton is directly responsible for communism and all problems in America. Somebody give Burr a medal.
Blaming Hamilton for Communism is insane.
Why thank you for recognizing my mental state. I feel seen and heard.
@@heistbros8575 Insanely J U S T I F I E D hahahahaha
Burr is one of many reasons I'm proud to be named Aaron.
@@ronly_driver know how you feel
I could watch a whole series of American history like this, 10/10
Reminder, that maryland is also a southern state based on the mason-dixon line, and would have succeeded during the Civil war if not for federal occupation
Maryland does what it always does, which is make money off of all sides.
Appreciate the history crossover from the lawn care guy. Great first vid
Death, taxes, lawn care.
Buy a goat. Lawn care solved
Wow, that was good. It's like the crash course history videos, but more entertaining and targeted towards a group of individuals who are here watching because they want to. Absolutely phenomenal. I'm looking forward to more.
So funny. The USS Pueblo would be a good one. Or the unintentionally attempted nuclear bombing of Goldsboro, North Carolina. Keep crushing!
Thanks dawg. The Goldsboro* story might be a great second episode 🤔
Bro hittin the chug jug at the end of the vid was sick. Thanks for teaching me that there never was a good point in the government!
You did a great job going over the whiskey rebellion man
Fkn love that this has so much info while still being hilarious. Make it a full series!!!!
I have the whiskey rebellion flag hanging in my room... that's the rebel flag we should be flying.
And the Appeal to Heaven flag.
👍🏻
I have no clever comments but i hear commenting increases visibility and thus more monetization. I’m very excited that there will be more of these.
I want you to know that I watched this piece of art while eating a chocolate PB cake, while occasionally glancing out at my lawn and wondering how to mix alcohol and lawn care.
First king_trout CZcams comment of all time. I’d like to take this moment to thank my parents and say fuck you to the ATF(pls don’t shoot my dog)
If cop dog is equal to cop, my dog needs to be equal to a family member.
It’s insane that they consider their dogs to be equal to them, but our dogs are practically worthless. They can waste ours and suffer no repercussions, yet if one of theirs dies it’s considered murder of an officer. What a pile of BS. Those tyrants can go to hell.
We need more history videos from King Trout. His storytelling style is hilarious!!
The revolution wasn’t actually fought over taxation without representation. It was about the British crown stating it had total ( arbitrary ) power over everything in the colonies. The actual fighting started over gun control.
It’s true for the most part but it was also about the unfair amount of taxes that came along with the total control over the colonies. Due to the French American war which majority of the population in the 13 colonies had either fought in or had fathers that did saw that the Crown was mistreating its people. Then came the attempt at removing guns from the population in early 1772 which made it even worse.
The British really spat in the faces of their veterans that had won a major decisive victory over the French by imposing unjust laws and taxes for something they started.
Like most things; it's complicated 😊
It's almost a miracle the founding fathers were even able to forge a united nation. They held some radically different positions from each other, and not everybody they claimed to represent even supported them.
@@ThebaconmurdererGeorge Washington started the French and Indian war by trying to kick the French out of a region, getting his ass kicked, and then congrats war. Let’s be truthful that it was about Americans being unrepresented in parliament
@@badart3204 The truth is both of them. "No Taxation without Representation" is just a catchier tagline.
It wasn't about one thing or another, singularly. It was a combination of things, firearm confiscation, taxes, someone telling us what to do, etc...
i'm glad you share my absolute unmitigated contempt for alexander hamilton
Hamilton is a dirty Keynesian
First video is an absolute banger. You are going to go FAR
I hope this becomes a series, I would love it
Great to see long form content
😂 2073 Cyber Trump 😂😂😂 This was SO good! Do one on the London Fire and C’est Que Vie Act of 1666! 😂
You might be an alcoholic but you also might be a better story teller than Paul Harvey.
Epic, would pay too much for a French Rosetta Stone voiced by you.
Keep them coming, please do more videos!
Show of hands for adding Aaron Burr Day to June, just to spice things up.
Hopefully this blows up too
Anybody that understands that Alexander Hamilton is the root of all evil is alright with me.
The fact that one of the first things they did after the Constitution was signed was kill people over a broadly understood to be unconstitutional tax is still horrifying.
Fuck the federalists. The fact as soon as the founders handed power to others they went to a broadly speaking unconstitutional tax is truly depressing.
But how does this affect my lawn?
Taxes mean you have less money to spend on your lawn. Or the government will take your lawn if they want to
I appreciate this comment more than you know
Or the grass length regulations
@@dylanmulvaney9912but the grass length regulations are harmful to my lawn and cause it to go bare in the hotter months and not get enough time to grow in the spring 😢
because in America, there is a tax behind every blade of grass
I wish you would have gone into more depth on Washington's shenanigans on raising the army.
Washington's circumventing the voluntary militia and drafting a standing army was a huge departure of a critical safeguard against tyranny that both the Federalist and Anti-Federalists proponents wrote and sopke about at length.
The idea was if the men didn't think it was a big enough threat to leave their livelyhood to fight then the campaign would be effectively vetoed by those who would be doing the dieing.
The ideal plan of the framers went off the rails right from the start.
Would you recommend the ashes of civilization as an alternative to diatomaceous earth? Y'know, for my lawn.
Bro I lived in Washington County the first 25 years of my life and I have no recollection of learning this
Thanks really got my small lawn getting really good looking
This is fantastic! I can *insert bass rift here* with this! I can't wait to see where this channel goes. So good, thrust the process
To be fair, what is now D.C. did extend into VA to form a perfect square, but when they decided no slavery in the District, VA was like, "Yeah, uh, we'd like our land back. We're... we're not going to do that." And so you have the portion of MD that is the D.C. we know today.
D.C not being a state is probably one of the best decisions made, it should be bigger so no federal worker in the capital can vote
@@jediknight1294then it sould cover all of n. Va and Central Maryland. Maybe the gerrymandering pros can get parts of NYC in there, too
This is the content I needed. Subscribed and will be following this series
Proud to be a long long descendent of one of the rebels from the whiskey rebellion. If anyone’s ever visited Pittsburgh, the story I’ve been told is that Neville island is named after the tax collector, who was chased all the way down to that island from Bower hill.
My American flag raised while watching this
Helluva good start to your channel!
Virginia: finish paying off its debt. Boy I sure do love being a large, responsible, and self reliant state.
The Newly Formed Government: I am about to end this state’s whole career. *proceeds to make the VA pay more in tax money and then eventually chop it up*
The birth of a new History CZcams Channel. Good luck to you m8, I support it.
Side note, im on my phone and that instagram link took me to the desktop version of CZcams. (It also tried to make me subscribe, you sneaky devil).
I had to go to the mobile app and search you up so that the video played correctly on my phone.
Keep it coming bro!
Keep in mind that Washington agreed with Hamilton about needing a strong federal government. Mostly because it benefited him financially. People like Washington fought in the Revolution because Britain had banned speculating in indigenous lands west of the Appalachians, which was where he had made worked towards making most of his fortune and would later go on to do even more heavily.
So in addition to creating a federal reserve Washington and Hamilton used this and the concurrent war with the Northwestern Indian Confederacy to establish the legal principle of a standing army.
Excited for your new channel! Can I give constructive criticism?
Music is teeeeny bit too loud
Need to put your face or something in the thumbnail bc I scrolled past it twice in my feed while I was trying to find it
Great job otherwise!! Funny and informative 🎉
Thank you for giving me valuable feedback. ❤ I think the fifes in the music are probably too piercing. Also; I’m not sure sure if my face or my logo is more recognizable 🤔 This round I just went for clickbait. But fr thank you.
Great content my dude!
Yea keep this up, this is the way it should be explained
This story is making me want to drink. Damn you history…and trout just because
Well executed!
It's good. More.
For your sake, I hope that's iced tea.
King Trout long form content is dope AF.
Good stuff man! You’ll be monetized in no time…it took me 2 years and a bunch of videos before I got there!
That was fun.
This is the content I’ve been missing in my life! Keep ‘em coming!
I like your vids, thanks CZcams algorithm
Excellent, what a beautiful and elegant recounting of past events
I just love whiskey, boog boi shirts, and rebellion!!!!! Sounds like the start of a good tea party? Maybe, whiskey party?
9:25 is the most appropriate response I have ever heard! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I've never been more quickly impressed by a CZcamsr than today
I definitely got a good laugh from the edit where you can clearly see the difference of volume in the whiskey bottle.
Dude, good work. Please to not change your methods, style, or self. Very refreshing creation. Please keep er as you do bud!!
Bad ass bro, now we see what you were working on. Keep kickn ass my trout brother.
So close to almost doing what they said they would.
Liked and commented for algorithm! Keep up the good work! 👍
please do more!!
Gaht dang this guy is excellent. Every bit of his content is spot on.
Damn that all took place not far from where I live. I knew about the Whiskey Rebellion, but never knew where it happened.
Tax this comment, lawn care guy!
Done. What now?
This is great!
Jumping between the fill level of the decanter at the beginning and at the end, I can tell this is going to be a fun one!
This ONLY got more funny - PLEASE make more American history vids!!
Great video man. This one's for the algorithm
Well researched
Google what was the largest whiskey distillery in 1798 and 1799, a few years after the whiskey rebellion.
Coincidence 😏
Thank you. Excellent content
I hate idea of the government coming to my house and telling me to pay a tax I was not involved in legalizing.
Which taxes did you vote on?
@@OurNewestMember The one that makes me pay -1,000 a month
Im from Morgan’s town aka Morgantown wv never knew about the tax collector, it’s great to learn everyday.
"I'm not saying that for legal reasons." - air. tight. 👍
Love this guy.
Liked, commented, subscribed...
Only point of issue I would bring with the notion that we fought a revolution because of “taxes” is not entirely correct. the whole thing was “no taxation without representation” the whole issue mainly had to do with the representation part because we didn’t have a representative to send to parliament while they taxed us for tea and our shit. Hence now why we have the House of Representatives and senate so we could vote in representation to vote on things including federal taxes.
Shhhhhh you can’t expect a 2A extremist to read a whole sentence and not just pick out the words they like
MAKE MORE OF THESE!!!!!
Key issue was not the taxes per se, it was the widespread use of whiskey as an alternative currency to the paper money on the frontier. No one could pay the taxes because no one had any paper money; the local (tax free) money by default was whiskey used in barter transactions. The whole point of Washington marching on the "Whiskey rebels"was to shut down the whiskey barter economy and force the tax resisting frontiersmen to use government script (which could be taxed) for their transactions instead.
That thing sure did happen
In the place with the people doing the stuff!
Without representation referred to the fact the colonies had no representation in parliament tho, often misinterpreted to mean whatever people want in terms of what you see in return for paying taxes
I have that decanter and glass set. Love you bud!
you gotta do more of these....
I grew up there - north of Pittsburgh. Its still a sore-spot in some places...
These are great! 🍻
Please do the Battle for Antioch.
🍻 again cuz you deserve it 👍👍
Good shit
The Tree of Liberty needs some watering
Thank you so much for talking about The Whiskey Rebellion! I’m from Western Pennsylvania and even here some people haven’t even heard of it. Farmers used their corn that was about to go bad to make moonshine, so it was also a way to get rid of bad product and make money out of it.
Now we put into the gas tank where it collects water
2:18 “capitol being in a southern state” point ,it was partially in south extending to 1847 when Alexandria voted to break off from Washington DC
Holy sh*t. You are so shadow banned by Google. It took me SO f*cking long to find your channel.
Same here for finding him!