Title: What were major differences between the Federalist Party and the Democratic Republican Party? : AskHistorians
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What were major differences between the Federalist Party and the Democratic Republican Party?
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What were major differences between the Federalist Party and the Democratic Republican Party? I haven't been able to find any sites that go into detail about the differences of the Federalist Party and the Democratic Republican Party. I was hoping you guys here would he able to help me with that. 9 comments
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Historyguy81
6 years ago
The key differences were on issues of nationalism and localism. The best way to compare the two parties is to compare their ideological leaders. Alexander Hamilton was a driving force behind the Federalists while Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the old Republican Party (Democratic-Republican, Jeffersonian Republican). Alexander Hamilton served as Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury (he is on the $10 and the treasury building is on the back of that bill) and he put forward a number of centralizing plans for economics, including a tariff, a national bank, and bounties for industrial production. He wanted to use the power of the newly minted federal government to develop the economic and industrial power of the United States along the lines of the British. Jefferson (First Secretary of State under Washington), on the other hand, was far more in favor of local economics.