o protect the domestic market from the British manufactured goods, while the South wished to have these borders open, so as to sell more cotton to the same British. But the stumbling block was obviously the status of slavery.
             But the opposition between the two Americas was also political. After the "Washington moment", two different visions were facing each other. The Hamiltonians wanted a stronger central state, while the Jeffersonian wanted to preserve the united states' own prerogatives. Of course this political conflict quickly got a territorial dimension, New England becoming a cradle for the Federal Idea, while the South, and mostly South Carolina be
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