MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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National banks
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Tariffs
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Agriculture
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Democratic-Republicans favored keeping the U.S. economy based on agriculture and said that the U.S. should serve as the agricultural provider for the rest of the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ideology. The Democratic-Republican Party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy. Ralph Brown writes that the party was marked by a “commitment to broad principles of personal liberty, social mobility, and westward expansion."
Detailed explanation-3: -Democratic Republicans, including Thomas Jefferson, supported the people in the French Revolution. They saw this revolution as a war against the “divine right of kings” and the “proper order”, where the wealthy kings and aristocrats believed they were born into power.