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Federalists supported the delegates in the writing of the constitution and saw the problems in the Articles of the Confederation. On the other hand the Anti Federalists were against the constitution. They did not support it because they did were against a strong central government. They didn’t like it because of previous experiences with King George lll. So they rejected the writing of the constitution and we’re fine with the Articles. However, as we all know, the constitution was written as the Articles were too weak to sustain the country.

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The north wanted taxes on trade since they had lots of people trading with them. However the southern states did not like this because trading was a huge part of their economy and do not want to have to pay taxes for it. As a result they compromised to only imported goods taxed and not exported taxes.

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The southern states wanted all their runaway slaves, even if caught in free states, to be returned. Because of this they established the fugitive slave act which inforced this act. The northern states did not like this because they were free and didn't want people to be treated as property.

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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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Federalists vs Anti-Federalists in Five Minutes

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The argument was over how slaves should be represented in government. Southern states had lots of slaves for their economy so they wanted slaves to count in the population but not for taxes so they could pay less and have more say in the government but the northern wanted the opposite. They agreed that slaves would be count as 3/5 of a person

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Delegates at the convention had difficult time with deciding about the number of representatives and how that should be decided. They had the virginia plan which said representatives were based on population but the smaller states wanted the new jersey plan which was representatives were equal no matter size. they decided that there would be two parts to the government: one with number of representatives based on population one no basing off of population.

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The Three-Fifths Compromise Explained: US History Review