After the war there were many different opinions about the way the colonies would be governed, some (non-federalists) believed that every American colony should have their own government. Non-federalists believed that forming a central government would result in abusive power and tyrannical rule. ... The federalists believed that a strong central government would help the country become and stay unified. The federalists refuted all of the anti-federalists complaints by explaining to them that the system of checks and balances would prevent tyrannical rule and ensure that the middle class st...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He talked to the white men about their fears of the Federalists and brought new people into the state and national office. He was different from the federalists because he appealed more to the middle class, rather than the upper. ... This was actually more supported by the federalists than the Jeffersonians and it ultimately divided the North and the South into separate societies. Northern legislation eventually compromised Jefferson's principles, for federalists, and later, Whigs, and all started to agree with the belief of anti-slavery, however the South still was strongly against it...

• Word Count: 1352
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American and French Revolutions both occurred in the eighteenth century; subverting the existing government and opening the way for capitalism and constitutionalism. Because of these similarities, the two revolutions are often assumed to be essentially eastern and western versions of each other. However, the two are fundamentally different in their reason, their rise, progress, termination, and in the events that followed, even to the present. The American Revolution was not primarily fought for independence. Independence was an almost accidental by-product of the Americans"...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Jefferson considered himself neither Federalist nor Anti-Federalist. ... Jefferson felt that because he opposed some of the Federalists ideas and many more of the Anti-federalists ideas that he could not be grouped with either party or in between the parties. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

According to the author, the Antifederalists lacked faith in this Federalist government of limited powers, but these men of restricted view or understanding could not prevent ratification of the Constitution. ... The author's view of the proper role of the states in the 1780's seems to owe more to the Federalists and to events after 1789 than to objective scholarship, and her suggestion that the Constitution created no central power ignores both political reality and the variety of Federalist thought. ...

• Word Count: 1258
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas Jefferson: The Man, the Myth, and the Morality Slavery in America was created since the new world was first discovered. Treating humans as a possession led to terrifying cruelties. Discuss in details the origins and use of slave in America. Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achieve...

• Word Count: 1502
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas Jefferson and his slaves children Slavery in America was created since the new world was first discovered. Treating humans as a possession led to terrifying cruelties. Discuss in details the origins and use of slave in America. Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the dra...

• Word Count: 1499
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Articles of Confederation: Once our Government, Now our History The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America. Soon after the Revolutionary War in America, the Articles of Confederation were first drafted by the continental congress in Philadelph...

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The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. The Revolution's leaders believed in a set of principles and achieving specific goals. These goals included: freeing themselves from monarchical rule and establishing a republic based on a union of thirteen states to promote liberty and e...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The "separation between church and state" has been an ongoing debate for a long time in American history. What is meant by this, is that government should stay out of the church's business. Religion has been a part of America for some time now and continues to be now. The first amendment, also know...

• Word Count: 2044
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School