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The Alien and Sedition Acts were a series of four bills passed in June and July of 1798 that revealed the disagreements between Federalists and Democratic Republicans. The two parties debated over many things, such as foreign policy, the strength of federal government, and states’ rights. These debates defined the effort to decide our country’s future. Examples of the differences between Federalist and Democratic Republican views are the French Revolution, Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions, and the XYZ Affair. These events all resulted in conflicts of the late 1790’s.
This decade was a time of international crisis and discord. The Federalists opposed the Democratic Republicans’ attachment to France. Alexander Hamilton, the leader of the Federalists, thought that Britain was superior and believed that the U.S. should model our government after theirs (Document D). Jefferson argued that Britain wasn’t democratic enough and we would lose our republican policies if we used......

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