... or state government should have the greater control. Hamilton was joined by Vice President John Quincy Adams leading the Federalists, who acknowledged a strong central government. Jefferson was joined by James Madison leading the Democrat-Republicans, who believed power was in the hands of the states. On the other hand, as the country advanced and refined, it became known that the fixed ... belief systems had practically switched roles. The Democrat-Republicans were more likely a party that supported "loose construction" and the Federalists the adverse. Succeeding the election of 1816, ...

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Nationalist Henry Clay retained his power in the postwar Congress, and headed the drive for a neo-federalist program of protective tariffs, international improvements, and a national bank. He called his program the American System, arguing that it would foster notional economic growth and a salutary interdependence between geographical ... and American consumers. Bills to provide federal money for roads, canals, and other internal improvements had a harder time getting approval. Congress agreed to complete the National Road, but President Madison and his republican successor, James Monroe, ...

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... the destruction of the 2nd National Bank, during the President Andrew Jackson's administration of the 1820's and 1830's. A hot topic since the days after the Revolution with Democratic Republicans and Federalist, the National Bank to continued to be a problem for Jacksonian Democrats. To uphold their principle of equal economic opportunity, the Jacksonian Democrats seized upon the prospect of the dissolving of ... Bank and placed into smaller banks known as "pet banks". The demolishing of the National Bank allowed the economic equality that the Jacksonian Democrats had long sought for. ...

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... the Era of Good Feelings. During the period after the war of 1812 the Federalists of the United States fell apart. James Monroe became president in 1816, after defeating the federalist candidate, Rufus King, by 183 to 34 in the voting of the Electoral College. After the presidency, he held a Goodwill Tour in the northern states to promote nationalism, where the ... ...

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... 's original Republican ideals. The National Republicans, later called Whigs, and later just Republicans, derived their strength mainly from the higher classes v/s bankers, manufacturers, merchants, and large landowners. It resembled Hamilton's Federalist Party. Benefits to the United States through Jacksonian Democracy were overwhelmingly dependent on the use of governing through an overwhelmingly powerful executive branch. The Jacksonian democrats depicted themselves as saviors ... ...

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... from earlier political combat involving slavery. The force and precise process of the debate caught very few aware observers by disbelief. The foreign policies of the Southern-supporting Jefferson and Madison managements - including an Restraint on foreign trade that destroyed New England's merchant economy and the War of 1812 that dishonored many Yankees' moral values as well as their agendas- had ... ...

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... provide for the wants of his body-(Schlesinger 309). He opposed the growth of cities and industry and even wanted to get rid of them completely. He said once to Madison, "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there ... ...

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