It was thought of as a hopeless fight, since the British had far more advanced military resources, and many did not know how to fight, since many were just farmers.
Product of the Cold War it seems,
On 1949, US government received an official confirmation that the Soviet Union had developed a Nuclear bomb.
To maintain the upper hand, President Truman approved the development of the hydrogen Bomb, an equivalent to 500 Atomic Bombs.
i'm pretty sure that most anti-federalists represented the southern states which were on plantations and small farms that were plentiful that is why most anti-federalists believed that farming should be the basis of the u.s. economy
