1796-1824 The First Party System

Party Realignment

1860-1928 The Two Republican Eras

1796-1824 The First Party System

Parties

1968-Present: Southern Realignment and The Era of Divided Party Government

Parties

Federalist: Alexander Hamilton (Conservatives)

Democratic Republican: Jefferson (Liberals)

Major Policies

Democratic: John C. Breckingridge ( ran against Abraham Lincoln in his first term

George B . Mc Clellan ran againts Abraham for reelection. (Conservative)

Republican: Abraham Lincoln (liberals)

Parties

Federalist: Wanted a strong national government.

Democratic Republican: Wanted strong state government.

Democratic: Clinton (Liberal)

Republican: Nixon, Reagan and Bush (Conservative)

Major Policies

Democrats: Slavery

Republicans: Antislavery

Democrats: Clinton restored a united party government but shifted back again

Republicans: Dominated in congress

• Hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury.
• For such service, he now appears in the $10 bill.
• Most leaders did not regard themselves as professional politicians.
• DR party derived its coalition from agrarian interests rather than from the growing number of capitalists who supported the Federalists.

• In the absence of the Whig party, three other parties formed
• The Republican is a combination of these parties and the Whig party they began arising in the 1950's.
• For the next thirty years, Republicans will continue to be the nation's prime party.

• In the elections of 1980, Donald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter.
• For the first time in 25 years the Republicans were in control of the senate.

Significant Event

Significant Event

For the first time in 25 ears the Republicans were in control o the senate and House of Representatives

Federalist became shortest-lived major party after federalist candidate (John Adams) loosing in his reelection bid in 1800. The party started vanishing away and no longer bothered to offer up a candidate for president.

This led to the first Democratic President.

Both parties arise due to the Civil War. War realigned parties and after the war, Republicans thrived. Democrats controlled the south and hated the Republicans.

They all included political due to the drastic change in political preference

1860

1825

1790

1900

Present

1932-1964: The New Deal Coalition

1828-1856: Jackson and the Democrats V. the Whigs

Parties

Republican: Herbert Hoover (Conservatives)

Democrats: Franklin D. Roosevelt (liberal)

Parties

Major Policies

Democrats: Andrew Jackson (Liberals)

Whigs: William Henry (1840) and Zachary Taylor (18480(Conservatives)

Republican: President Hoover stated that economic depression could not be be cured by legislative action. Which was disastrous for the Republican party.

Democrats: A new deal.

Major Policies

Democrats: All about "common people"

Whigs: Replaced Federalists and they were against slavery

• President Roosevelt served for 4 terms
• Until the Republicans broke their grip of power with a new presidential candidate.

• Democrats failed to please everyone.
• They were pulled apart by factions.
• Whigs had two distinct wings Northern industrialists and southern planters who were brought together

Significant Event

Democrats took back the presidency with John F. Kennedy. Johnson's Vietnam war policies that tore the democratic party apart in 1968

In the 1850's slavery issue, dominated American politics. Failure to compromise created segregation between North and South and both political parties.

Andrew Jackson soon passed away.

Samantha Garcia