WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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It was the illegal trade of Whiskey north of the Canadian Border.
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It was the illegal import of European Whiskey into the United States.
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Government officials helped distillers avoid taxes placed on whiskey they sold.
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Government officials secretly stealing government whiskey for their own private sales.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of all the major St. Louis Whiskey Ring defendants, Babcock alone received acquittal. Although Babcock won the battle, he lost the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Whiskey Ring took place from 1871 to 1876 centering in St. Louis during the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. The ring was an American scandal, broken in May 1875, involving the diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Whiskey Ring, in U.S. history, group of whiskey distillers (dissolved in 1875) who conspired to defraud the federal government of taxes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The unprecedented way that Grant ran his cabinet, in a military-style rather than civilian, contributed to the scandals. For example, in 1869, Grant’s private secretary Orville E. Babcock, rather than a State Department official, was sent to negotiate a treaty annexation with Santo Domingo.