-- it affected farmers because the crop prices declined and many were unable to pay their taxes and the state government began seizing farms and selling them in order to get the taxes back.
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Some political leaders in the 1790s attempted to overcome the divisions of the 1780s by focusing on increasing the prosperity and stability of the country. However, many of the reforms that were proposed by Alexander Hamilton and others were still hotly contested, and political divisions remained and even intensified.
One of the problems faced by many newly independent nations was violence between ethnic groups.
The existence and growth of sectional and class differences in the United States were in fact revealed and also 'foreshadowed' in various ways by events after the (American rather than French) Revolutionary War in the 1780s. The 1787 Constitutional Convention, for instance, highlighted yet again the increasing difference between Southern mindsets and Northern, with 'class' distinctions showing up as significant between convention-delegates as well as within the home-regions of those same delegates.