THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
GEORGE WASHINGTONS LEADERSHIP AT TRENTON SARATOGA VALLEY FORGE
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The Democratic Republican Party
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The Federalist Party
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The Democratic party
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The Republican Party
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Hamilton was the leader of the Federalist Party. It was made up of merchants, bankers, manufacturers, wealthy farmers, and plantation owners. Many Federalists were well-educated and had most of their support in big cities in the Northeast.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Federalist Party supported policies that helped bankers and wealthy businessmen. The Republicans supported policies that helped farmers and small businessmen.
Detailed explanation-3: -They favored weaker state governments, a strong centralized government, the indirect election of government officials, longer term limits for officeholders, and representative, rather than direct, democracy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Influential public leaders who accepted the Federalist label included John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Rufus King, John Marshall, Timothy Pickering and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.