What was the major dividing factor between the federalist and the democratic republicans?

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2026-04-06 11:26

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Citizen Genet's antics and Jay's Treaty demonstrated both the difficulties faced by a small weak nation caught between two great powers and the wide gap in outlook between Federalists and Republicans. To the Federalists, Republican backers of the increasingly violent and radical French Revolution were dangerous radicals ("Jacobins"); to the Republicans, advocates of amity with England were monarchists who would subvert the natural rights of Americans. The Federalists connected virtue and national development with commerce; the Republicans saw America's destiny as that of a vast agrarian republic. The politics of their conflicting positions became increasingly vehement.

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