Polical Parties (jan 1, 1862 – jan 1, 1898)

Description:

REPUBLICANS
- Midwest, small-town northeast, black
southern voters, veterans
- "waving the bloody shirt" -> talk abt. War
- Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists,
Presbyterians (stricter)
- government should regulate moral affairs
- Patronage
- Factions
- stalwarts -> Patronage
- half-breeds -> open to reform
- mugwumps -> Republicans who vote for
Democrats for reform

DEMOCRATS
- south, northern industrial cities, immigrants
- Lutherans, Roman Catholic
- condemned government efforts to impose a
single moral standard
- Patronage

POPULISTS
- farmers, industrial workers, economic
reformers
- critical of laissez faire and capitalism
- causes -> economic issues (RRs, Panics)
- wanted economic relief and government
intervention, civil service reform, 8 hour day
- Omaha Platform
- direct election of Senators
- graduation income tax
- secret ballot
- bimetalism

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