Question

What event coincided with the emergence of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist political parties in the United States? the writing and adoption of the Constitution the abolition of slavery the addition of Western territories as states the secession of the Southern states

Answer 1

"The writing and adoption of the Constitution" coincided with the emergence of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist political parties in the United States, since the Federalists were in favor of ratifying the Constitution, while the Anti-Federalists were not.

Answer 2

Option A is the right answer, that the writing and adoption of the Constitution coincided with the emergence of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist political parties in the United States.

Federalists were the supporters of the new constitution. They believed in the formation of a centralized federal government with strong Financial roots.

Anti-Federalists, on the other hand,  was a group of people who resisted the ratification of the constitution. Many of them favored a limited form of central government because they associated a powerful management with British despotism. Some of them even advocated the idea of self-government, as they were feared with the fact that strong government would be controlled by the affluent.