Events
Madison warned against factions.
Hamilton inaugurated it into system.
First party = Federalist Party
Dem-Rep defeated FedsJackson-founded pp system.
Van Buren argued that a party
could not aspire to pleasing all
the people all the time.
governing party needed a
loyal opposition to represent
parts of society that it could not.In 1828, Jackson forged a new coalition(Westerners, Southerners,
new immigrants, settled Americans)The Republicans = the antislavery party.Slavery dominated politics
Split Whigs and Dems2nd Rep = watershed election of 1896
(populists vs. republicans).Hoover elected 1928stock market crach 1929
Hoover fails to deal with GDFDR (Dem) beats Hoover (Rep)
party realignment
1932Southern realignment - gradually
over the four decades since 1968.pattern of a divided party government
president is of one party,
Congress a majority of another.party system has dealigned
rather than realignedFeds had capitalist interests
Dem-Reps had agrarianPeriods
The First
Party
System
(1796-1824)Democrats vs. Whigs
1826-1856The Two Republican Eras
(1860-1928)The New Deal Coalition
(1932-1964)Southern Realignment and the
Era of Divided Party Government
(1968-Present)
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