The political party that believed power was held by the few people were the federalists. The federalists beiveived that it was the job of the government to protect the opulent few from the poorer many. that type of government is called a oligarchy
America needed new markets for its goods, not a source of raw material for industries.
<span>As workers grew tired of toiling for the benefit of capitalists instead of for themselves, some of them banded together to form the first national labor union, the knights of labor, in 1869.</span>
