Federalist vs AntiFederalists

Opposed the development of a strong federal government

• Anti-Federalist

• Federalist

Wanted a stronger national government

• Anti-federatlist

• Federalist

Opposed constitution until the Bill of Rights were included

• Anti-federalist

• Federalist

Proposed and supported the Constitution

• Anti-federalist

• Federalist

The Constitution already contains a few rights, so we may as well add a whole Bill of Rights.

• Federalist
• Anti-Federalist

The United States is too large to have a central government. People won't know their leaders and will loose control over the government. 

• Federalist 
• Anti-Federalist

They wanted a strong central government and no Bill of Rights

• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists

Federalists were ____ the Bill of Rights.  Anti-Federalists were _____ the Bill of Rights.

• against/for
• for/against
• against/against
• for/for

A Federalist is someone who supported

• sharing powers between the federal government and state governments
• giving all of the power to the federal government
• giving all of the power to the state governments
• giving all of the power to George Washington

Anti-Federalists feared

• strong state government
• strong federal government
• spiders
• weak federal and state governments