Mercantilism created competition between companies, states, and countries. My teacher once gave me the example of a tree cutter making tables. It was about who makes the most profit.
it us in areas between europe and asia
The areas with the federalist majority were mostly found along the Atlantic seacoast as these areas had much more trade and merchants.
Moreover, most of the first cities to be settled, were on the Atlantic coast and because of this, the biggest part of the population lived in those cities when the federalist party first formed.
It had european troops i pretty sure
