Was the Whiskey Rebellion and the shay rebellion the same?

NO they were 2 completely different rebellions.

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Whiskey Rebellion's purpose was to oppose the new heavy taxes that were placed on whiskey. Taxes were placed on imported alcohol in order to pay off the debt owed to European investors from the Revolutionary War, like France. This is the era when America started distilling their own backyard whiskey to evade tax collectors. From fermented corn people were able to distill it to a clear and extremely potent alcoholic drink, later called (white lighting or moonshine). George Washington sent more troops to stop the rebellion than he did for the Revolutionary War. Tax collectors were dumped in tar and feathers to rebel and humiliate the government. George Washington was so impressed by the bootleggers that he himself had "alembics" to make his own, which was apple whiskey. Bourbon was then born.

Shay's Rebellion was named after Daniel Shay who was one of the many unpaid war veterans from the Continental Army who had to give up their homes to unpaid debts. Even after givin up so much to for their country they were being harassed by sherrif's, constables, lawyers, and tax collectors. Samuel Adams helped draw up the Riot Act, which would punish anybody who would instigate public riots in Massachussetts.