Want this question answered?
A strong base of dedicated supporters.
Less agriculture, more industry
The Federalists were strongest in the Northeast. John Adams, from Massachusetts and Alexander Hamilton from NY were two of their leaders. Their main opposition was Thomas Jefferson and his supporters from the South and the West.
They were located in the northern states. The south was mainly agriculture.
The alternative was to let the south secede from the Union or achieve some kind of compromise.
Yes, agriculture is the number one industry in South Dakota.
zebras
s h i t
A strong base of dedicated supporters.
nothing
The South's economy was based almost entirely on agriculture
The South
The most dramatic change in agriculture in the South was the invention of the cotton gin.
cotton
Agriculture
Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture South Building was created in 1936.