To compete with other European countries,
To expand global influence
To compete with growing public perferance and reduction of truama from the revolutionary war
Hamilton was seen as a person who favored more power obtained by the central government. This means he was in favor of things like a national bank, less state rights, and less of an ability for freed slaves to vote (because federalists were also democrats). Jefferson, on the contrary, was an anti-federalist. He feared that excess central power would infringe on the rights of the states, and so to avoid this, he did as much as he could to retain state rights. He also believed central government authority gave more power to the upper class (wealthy whites) than it did to the common man (poor whites, freed slaves).
This historian would be using the skill of "comparative analysis," since he or she is comparing a wide variety of sources to draw a conclusion between them as a group.
We need to see the other parts of the text, as all u included was her being a modern day conservative
The enlightenment was a group of people who believed in science above all and explains all.