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1 day ago · The membership of the new Congress was decidedly federalist. In the eleven-state (minus North Carolina and Rhode Island) Senate 20 were Federalist and two Anti-federalist (both from Virginia). The House included 48 Federalists and 11 Anti-federalists (from four states: Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Virginia).
1 day ago · ML/DH: The founders were worried about a number of problems that seemed endemic to modernity. First of all, there was the enormous scale of modern states, and it was clear in the American context that the United States would become even bigger in a relatively short space of time, probably stretching all the way to the Pacific.
1 day ago · The Federalist Party was a nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801. The party was defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, and it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in New England.
3 days ago · Anti-Federalists Oppose Slavery Provisions in Constitution. Slavery was one of the most divisive issues in the debates over whether or not to ratify the Constitution. Although the constitution banned the importation of slaves beginning in 1808, it did not restrict the continued use and ownership of slaves, or the slave trade within the southern ...
1 day ago · Battle of Monmouth. James Monroe ( / mənˈroʊ / mən-ROH; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the ...
4 days ago · The Confederate States of America consisted of 11 states: 7 original members and 4 states that seceded from the United States after the fall of Fort Sumter. Four border states held enslaved people but remained in the Union.
1 day ago · History. The Democratic Party is the oldest political party in the United States and among the oldest political parties in the world. It traces its roots to 1792, when followers of Thomas Jefferson adopted the name Republican to emphasize their anti-monarchical views.
