Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans

Multiple Choice

Which issue was a factor in the formation of the Federalist Party during the early republic era?

• Disagreements over how much the national government should

  collect in taxes

• Disagreements over how much state governments should

  regulate manufacturing

• Disagreements over the role that state governments should have in ratifying treaties

• Disagreements over the role that the national government should have in printing currency

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Alexander Hamilton was the leader of the ​

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Party and Thomas Jefferson was the leader of the ​

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Party.

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Federalist

Democratic-Republican

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The ​

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Party believed in a strong, central government. The ​

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wanted a weak, central government in favor of a strong, state government.

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Options (6)

Strong federal government

Wanted a national bank

Emphasis on manufacturing

Strong state government

Wanted state banks

Emphasis on agriculture

Organize these options into the right categories

Federalist

Democratic-Republicans

Multiple Choice

Why did many farmers, artisans, and former Anti-Federalists support the Democratic-Republican Party?

• The Democratic-Republicans favored the expansion of a strong national government.

• The Democratic-Republicans supported strict restrictions on immigration.

• The Democratic-Republicans supported the use of tariffs.

• The Democratic-Republicans favored states' rights and the rights of the common man.

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Click on the pair that contributed to America's first political parties.

Multiple Choice

The first political parties in the United States formed mainly in response to disagreements

over —

• taxation without representation

• the doctrine of judicial review

• territorial expansion to the west

• the extent of federal power

Multiple Choice

The Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans emerged as separate political parties partly

as a result of disagreement over —

• how the nation should develop economically

• whether to enforce the Monroe Doctrine

• how the nation should admit new states

• whether to approve the Declaration of Independence

Multiple Choice

The organization of the first U.S. political parties resulted in large part from disagreements over which issue?

• The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France

• The election of George Washington to a second term as president

• The establishment of the First Bank of the United States

• The attack on the Port of Tripoli in North Africa