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Who believed in a strong federal government north or south?
Federalists also believed that a strong central government could best protect individual citizens’ rights and freedoms. Federalists were not afraid of the central government created by the Constitution because it had three branches—the executive, legislative, and judicial—that could limit each other’s power.
How did white Southerners react to reconstruction?
After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.
Why did the southern states want to secede from the union?
Southern states seceded from the union in order to protect their states’ rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tariffs. Southern states believed that a Republican government would dissolve the institution of slavery, would not honor states’ rights, and promote tariff laws.
How did many northerners feel about a strong central government How about Southerners?
Southerners thought that the Constitution gave them the power as a state to declare any national federal law illegal. They thought that states’ rights were greater than federal rights. But the Northerners believed that the national government’s power superceded the states’.
Did the South favor a strong central government?
State rights – The leaders in the South wanted the states to make most of their own laws. In the North, people wanted a stronger national government that would make the same laws for all the states. Lincoln was against slavery and wanted a strong federal government, two things the South did not agree with.
Why does the federal government have so much power?
Without federal authority people wouldn’t be governed under the same rules. The federal authority is what unifies all the states, as one. Although,states should have the right to make decisions on more minor activities such as, marriage, state leaders, education, etc. This is why I think federal authority and state’s rights share equal power.
Why was South Carolina the first state to secede?
As the first state to secede, South Carolina’s “Declarations” established precedent and unabashedly claimed that the primary reason for secession remained the refusal of northern states to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott (1857) decision.
Why did the federalists want a strong central government?
Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and other Federalists believed that Britain’s strong central government served as a wise model for the new American nation (minus a tyrannical monarch of course). Thomas Jefferson and James Madison believed that liberty would be best preserved in the hands of state governments and by extension, the people.
Federal authority and state’s right are equally important. Without federal authority people wouldn’t be governed under the same rules. The federal authority is what unifies all the states, as one. Although,states should have the right to make decisions on more minor activities such as, marriage, state leaders, education, etc.