Uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
It was most likely the smoked sausage Kristoforas ate that morning.
I got my answer here:
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You see for yourself.
The war that erupted in 1898 between the United States and Spain was preceded by three years of fighting by Cuban revolutionaries to gain independence from Spanish colonial rule.
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. The extent to which different markets are free and the rules defining private property are matters of politics and policy