US History Name: Professor: Class: Date Introduction American’s first government was under the Articles of Confederation. The articles proved insufficient to form a stable government, as the central government was weak. Delegates in charge of the task of reforming the government met at the Philadelphia Convention in an attempt to resolve the same. They decided to enact an entirely new government by forming a constitution. This government would attempt to solve the many problems the country was facing under the Articles of Confederation. The people who were for the idea the Federalists while those against were the anti-federalists (BRADFORD 22). Difference between Federalists and Anti-federalists The Federalists argued that …show more content…
Even before his presidency, he was an active opposer of slavery and slave trade and called it moral depravity. Jefferson drafted a law in Virginia that would foresee the prohibition of the importation of African slaves. In 1784, he proposed an ordinance that would ban slavery in the Northeast States. However, by then the number of slaves in those states and especially in Virginia had gone up with around 90% over the duration of 40 years (Randall 10). He assumed that the abolition of the slave trade would weaken its market and hence hasten its end but instead took a turn for the worse after the business became more widespread and profitable. He intensified his advocacy to planting crops that were less labour reliant such as sugar, wheat and grapes in Virginia not knowing that the most valuable commodity was slaves (Randall 16). However, by the time he assumed the presidency, the country had a national debt of 83 million dollars that was because of Hamilton’s fiscal policies. He cut down costs by dismissing certain establishments and investments and closed down unnecessary offices. However, they never succeeded in their attempt to dismantle the national bank that engineered increase of the national debt (Lee and Farr