The Whiskey Ring
a. provided bribes in the form of liquor to various Congressmen.
b. was a multi-state illegal bootlegging operation.
c. was a plot by struggling mountain whites in the South to profit from tainted whiskey.
d. was a smuggling operation that profited by evading tariffs.
e. stole millions in excise-tax revenues from the Treasury.
e
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