Northern merchants
supporters of federalism were mainly wealthy merchants from the North. <span>previously,members of the Federalist party were mostly wealthy merchants, big property owners in the North, and conservative small farmers and businessmen. However, after the great depression those who support a greater government involvement have been southern farmers mainly because of subsidies.
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1) Santa Anna had signed a treaty to grant Texas independence and Mexico refused to accept this treaty.
2) Texas was bankrupt.
3) Comanches and Indian groups threatened attack smaller Texan communities.
An event that brought the nation together was the Missouri compromise. This compromise worked for about 30 years. This event made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. It also made the idea of 36 30. Anything above is free and anything below is slave. Except for Missouri witch was above. Until the Kansas- Nebraska act witch made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional. <span>The Kansas- Nebraska act pulled the nation apart. This act made the the Missouri compromise unconstitutional and made it so the people could choose whether or not a state was slave. This basically started a land grab of who gets the most land. The South wanted Nebraska and Kansas because it was perfect for cotton. The North wanted the land so the south wouldn't get it.</span>
Helped make them a stronger nation but also a bigger target, the more countries you control, the tastier you look for a bigger country to take you out and take your puppeted countries.
