MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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It decreased in strength because Adams ignored the people’s desire for war.
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It increased in strength due to support among Americans over the XYZ Affair.
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It increased in strength among the American people but not members of Congress.
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It decreased in strength because it split into factions over Adams refusal to declare war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The party split over negotiations with France during President John Adams’s administration, though it remained a political force until its members passed into the Democratic and the Whig parties in the 1820s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the Federalist Party was strong in New England and the Northeast, it was left without a strong leader after the death of Alexander Hamilton and retirement of Adams. Its increasingly aristocratic tendencies and its opposition to the War of 1812 helped to fuel its demise in 1816.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 and the end of the War of 1812, many Americans viewed the Federalists as traitors. The Federalist Party collapsed, leaving the Democratic-Republican Party as the only political party in the United States until the mid-1820s.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the death of Alexander Hamilton and retirement of John Quincy Adams from politics, the Federalist Party disintegrated. After the War of 1812 ended, partisanship subsided across the nation. In the absence of the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party stood unchallenged.