Weak Federal Government

Having to rely on people to make or control decisions for you can be a very scary thing and can result in arguments. When talking about the younger years of America we can clearly see what happens when the government has either too much or too little control over its country. In either sense, it will always bring pain, anger, and rebellion.
For example, in 1776, The Articles of Confederation was created as the U.S. first constitution. It was clear that The Articles made a weak federal government thus it gave more power to the states. While the U.S. used the Articles, it faced many economic problems due to the lack of the power of the federal government. One of the main problems was that the federal government is that it had no control to impose
Adams was a federalist who opposed Republicans, or the Democratic Republican Party. Republicans thought that more power should be given to state governments, because they felt that the Federalists were becoming more of a monarch style government. During this time, there was a lot a fear of going to war with France and Federalists accused the Republicans of being “allies” with the French. With fears of enemy immigrates coming into the U.S., Congress passed four new laws, known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Alien act restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country as it allowed the government to arrest and deport all male citizens of the enemy nation. The sedition act made it illegal to speak out against Adams or the government on how they ran the country. It was not until 1798, where Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which gave rights to both states to nullify any acts from congress that they thought were
To help resolve the is The Missouri Compromise was passed. This would determine lands to the west of the Mississippi as slave states while keeping north of the Mississippi as free states. Most southerners felt that this law favored the north and were designed to hurt the south. It was not until the passing of The Fugitive Slave Law where it seemed like the legislation was clearly in favor of the South. This law meant that people in the free states were forced to return escaped slaves back to their masters in the south. When Abraham Lincoln became the next president in 1860, southerners feared that he would abolish slavery and destroy the south yet again. Having exhausted their legal and political options, they felt that the only way to protect themselves from this Northern assault was to no longer be a part of the United States of