The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. The whiskey tax was the first tax put in place on a domestic product with the new government. It was intended to help reduce debt from the revolution. The tax was on all spirits but since whiskey was the most popular one of all.
The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were used to distilling their surplus grain and corn into whiskey. In these regions, whiskey was sufficiently popular that it often served as a form of exchange. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the U.S. federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of the taxation powers of Congress.
Throughout counties in Western Pennsylvania, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax.
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Answer:
The diffusion referred to in the question above is called Stimulus Diffusion.
This refers to the transmission of an idea or culture from it's original demography to another and then changes in the way it is being practised or is adopted in a different way in the new region.
Explanation:
In The Lorax, which is a children's book written by Dr Seuss and first published in the late nineteenth century. In the book, the author speaks to economic and industrial issues as it affects the environment.
The Onceler in the Lorax used to be an agent of environmental destruction and tells his tale from a point of regret. It is in the course of telling the story of how he masterminded the destruction of the environment in the valley that once contained a forest of Truffula trees and a range of animals that he mentions how his idea diffused into the valley.
Where he came from people wore Thneeds and they wore in around their necks. In the valley, they didn't. Nobody knew what a Thneed was. He relocated to the valley because of what he thought was a business opportunity: Demand for Thneeds. He then tries to sell the Thneed which was made out of the Truffula trees but the people of the valley were not interested.
After several attempts at sales of Thneed, he gives up and throws the Thneed away. Just then, it hits a girl who starts to wear it as a hat. Somehow, people take a liking to the Thneed as worn by the girl and they all rush to the Onceler to make one for them.
So in the above, narrative, we see a Stimulus Diffusion of an idea or culture. The Thneed was a new idea which got diffused into the culture of the people of the valley. Not only that, but they also changed the way the Thneed was being used where the Onceler came from.
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