Growth Of political Parties in the 1790s.

Opposition to the Federal party began in 1790, when Hamilton broached a project for the assumption of State debts by the central government. It grew stronger in 1791, when he proposed to establish a national bank. Jefferson, who had been the first Secretary of State, was now found at the head of a party in open opposition to the administration. This party, though adopting the name of Republicans, advocated the principles of the older Anti-Federalists, claiming that …

…in the US during the 1790 my choice in being a federalist or a demo-republican would really depend on what kind of person I was at that time. If I was an upper classmen or rich mainly probably I would've been a federalist instead of a democratic-republican but if I was a farmer or something I would've been a democratic-republican instead of a federalists. So it really depended on what type of class I was in.