One of the actions done by the federal government to hinder the efforts of abolitionists in the United States is that "<span>They put a gag rule into effect which prevented members of Congress from discussing any petition that promoted antislavery." A gag rule is defined as the prohibiting of the discussion on certain topics in the legislative. </span>
The most important reason why setting the nation's western border + important economically to the new country was because most of the territory/ land in the west was owned by different countries. Some of the countries were Spain France , and the United States needed to affirm its own territory.
I think its the Perpetration of the gifts... im not sure
They feared it because we came from a nation that had to strong of a goverment and the anti federlist didnt want it to happen again