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Political Party
test 12-2-14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Party System | Discrepancy between 1789-1792 |
| 1792-1824 - Monroe Presidency was known as what? | era of good feelings |
| What are the two parties? | Federalist and Democratic-Republican |
| Federalist | Believes in a strong central government, a lose construction of the Constitution |
| Who is the Federalists founder? | Hamilton |
| What do they support? | Bank of the United States |
| Hamilton institutes: | Believes that the future of the US lies within manufacturing and industrial growth rather than agriculture |
| Why do they want ties with Britain rather than France? | Britain is stable and we have close trade ties |
| Democratic-Republican | Believes in a not as strong central government |
| Who formed the Democratic-Republican party? | Jefferson and Madison |
| Jefferson institutes: | that the future lies within agriculture |
| Second Party System | 1820s-1850s |
| Democrats | [Old Republican Party aka Democratic-Republican] |
| Who led the Democrat-Republican Party? | Andrew Jackson |
| What is this party known as? | Common Mans Party |
| Why do they want a smaller national government? | because they don't want federal intervention |
| What is their beliefs? | opening the Western lands and forcible removal of Native Americans |
| What opportunity does that provide? | for small white farmers to get some land (common mans president) |
| Whigs | Believe in the federal government |
| What did they want the federal government to do? | pay for infrastructure |
| What did the whigs support? | scientific research by the government through a national university |
| What issue will destroy them in the future? | slavery |
| Third Party System | 1850s-1890s |
| Democrats | Alignment between the southern and western farmers |
| The Democratic Party will be split into what two factions? | pro-slavery faction in the South and anti-slavery faction in the North |
| Who were the Democratic Party leaders? | Henry Clay and Daniel Webster |
| Republican party | formed in 1854 (SAME party as Republicans today) |
| What did the oppose? | expansion of slavery in the West |
| Only 2 Democratic presidents will be elected, who are they? | Cleveland and Wilson |
| President Lincoln was elected in 1860 marking what? | the 2nd time the Republicans have offered a Presidential nominee |
| Who was the Republicans first presidential nominee? | John Freemont |
| Fourth Party System | 1890s-1930s |
| Which party dominated this time period? | Republicans |
| What do they believe? | that the government should solve the problems of society |
| Democrats are supported by who? | NE Farmers |
| Populist party are supported by who? | Southern and Western Farmers |
| One democrat president is elected in 1912, who is it? | President Wilson |
| Fifth Party System | 1930s-till today |
| Democrats | dominant position in national politics for the 1st time in a century |
| New Deal Coalition | will vote democratic for forty years: Unions, immigrants, minority and low income votes, catholics, jews, southerners, urbanites, intellectuals |
| What did it redefine? | the role of the federal government in American life |
| Republicans | Reduce government regulations and shrink size of federal bureaucracy |
| political party is known as what in the Federalists papers? | factions |
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a.allsup
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