Compare And Contrast The Federalist Party And Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist party, and Thomas Jefferson and the Republican party both wanted different things. Hamilton and the Federalist party wanted a strong central government, they wanted it to be run by well educated property owners. While on the other hand, Jefferson and the Democratic Republican party wanted nearly all power to stay with the states, they wanted the farmers to run the nation. Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist group were made of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers. Nearly all of them were well educated and owned property and most of them were in New England. Thomas Jefferson and the Republican group were mostly artisans, shopkeepers, frontier settlers, backcountry farmers, and poor farmers. They were