Second Party System1828-1854 (1 dic 1828 anni – 1 feb 1854 anni)

Descrizione:

Democrats :
1.States’ rights and state sovereignty
2.Strict constructionists
3.Laissez-faire economics
4.Territorial expansion
5.Slave Power
6.Equal opportunity
7.Coalition:
·Regional bases in South and West
·Yeoman farmers, working class, immigrants, small slave-owning class
8.Prominent Members
Andrew Jackson, Martin van Buren, James K. Polk, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas

Whigs:
1.American System policies
2.Modernization and development in existing jurisdictions
3.Social reforms
4.Mixed on slavery
5.Conscience Whigs
6.Cotton Whigs
7.Coalition:
·Regional base in New England
·Upper and middle class professionals, business class, Protestant evangelicals
8.Prominent Members
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Seward, Thurlow Weed