Anti-Federalist. They
opposed big government. They prioritize
state rights. They do not want big
government because of their experience under British rule where they were
not represented and the British imposed
too many unfair taxes on them which led to the Revolutionary War.
In the Spanish colonies in America the colonists created a kind of caste system based on ethnic hierarchy which of course put the Spaniards on top. The rest of ethnic groups ranked based on their resemblance of the Spaniards so for example the Indians would be ranked higher than Blacks as they more resembled the Spaniards.
A. it extended the nation's boundary to the Pacific ocean
