not long after the Constitution was created. One of the first parties to develop was the Federalist Party, lead by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. At about the same time, a party which was then called the Republican Party, lead mainly by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, was founded. Later on, a group who believed that the federal government should strongly promote economic development was established and became known as the National Republicans. The opponents …showed first 75 words of 530 total…

…showed last 75 words of 530 total…people owned slaves and said that the state is now free and no one could own slaves, what would the slave owners do? The slave owners needed slaves to tend their farm and tend the crops, what would slave owners do if they had to give up their slaves and hire people and pay them to do the work. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, in my opinion, was meant to do both: impose order and encourage freedom.