Question

Why did the Whiskey tax upset small farmers?

Group of answer choices

Because they would distill their grains and make profit off of whiskey

Because they did not like whiskey

Answer 1

Farmers living west of the Appalachian Mountains distilled their excess grain into whiskey, which was easier and more profitable to transport over the mountains than the more cumbersome grain. A whiskey tax would make western farmers less competitive with eastern grain producers.