The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In the late 18th century, the newly independent United States of America faced its first major domestic crisis.

Settlers in the westernmost regions rose up in armed rebellion against the government.

The cause of the rebellion had to do with taxes, which was the very thing that the American

Revolution was about in the first place.

The rebellion was seen by some as a threat to the very existence of the new country.

Learn more about the Whiskey Rebellion, its causes, and its ramifications on this episode

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One of the things that might be hard to understand in the 21st century is that in the late 18th century,

nobody was really sure if the American experiment was going to be successful.

This was a country that was far from the old world.

It was surrounded by the colonies of European powers, and it was a republic in a world that was

mostly ruled by monarchies.

And there were many people in Britain who were sure that the United States would soon fall

apart, and they'd come crawling back to Mother England.

So when the events that took place in the early 1790s occurred, they were taken very seriously

at the time, even though they've been largely forgotten today.

And the story starts with debt. The United States came out of the Revolutionary War with an

enormous amount of debt. The first Congress and the first president were inaugurated in March

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