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1790s Political Parties
4-4.5 Compare the social and economic policies of the two political parties that were formed in America in the 1790s
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4th Grade
12/05/2019

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Who was in charge of the federalist party?
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Alexander Hamilton
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this party included businessmen, large landowners, and professional people who believed that the country should grow and expand through industrialization.
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Federalists
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What party wanted a system of taxes and a national bank?
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Federalists
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wanted the new federal government to be more powerful than the state governments in order to have a stronger and more unified country, rather than the loose union (confederation or confederacy) of states it was under the Articles of Confederation.
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Federalists
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wanted their governments to be modeled after the British government
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Federalists
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Who led the Democratic-Republican Party?
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Thomas Jefferson
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included mostly farmers and common people.
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Democratic-Republican Party
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believed that most of the power of government should lie in the state governments because they were closer to the common man (who was wise because of his close ties to his soil and therefore did not need education) and that the federal government should therefore remain weak.
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Democratic-Republican Party
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admired the French, because the French had been the major allies of the US in the Revolution
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Democratic-Republican Party
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