Federalism Vs Anti-Federalism

From around 1780 to around 1840, America struggled with the Constitutional Convention, Federalism and anti-federalism, the war of 1812 during the Jeffersonian age, the Jacksonian age, and the fight for equal right for all people living in America. Struggling through these events is what made America become the country it is today. In 1787, the Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the major dissuasions at the Convention was how the states would be represented in the federal government. There were two main plans for the representatives. There was the Virginia plan, which applied to the larger states. It says that “Representation In the Congress would be based upon the population of the state. The second plan was the New Jersey plan, which applied to the smaller states. It said that “Every state will get the same number of representatives in Congress.” At the Constitutional Convention, they resolved this problem with the great compromise. The Great Compromise encompasses both plans because we have the Senate, which has the same amount of representatives from each state, and we have the house of representatives, where each state is represented based on their population.
Federalism and Anti-Federalism are two parties in America that disagreed on almost everything …show more content…
The war broke out due to the fact that Great Britten was restricting America from trading with France, the capturing of the American seamen from the Royal Navy, and America wanted to expand their territory. In late 1811, the “Battle of Tippecanoe” breaks out, leading to the Indians seeking help from the British against the American army. On June 18, 1812, James Madison signed the agreement to go to war with the British; this was known as the war of 1812. The Federalist side of America was strongly against war but ended up getting beat out on the