The Rise of Political Parties Political party – group of people with similar views on policies, social and economic issues, role of the government Early distrust of party factions – opposing groups within parties – Today things like: every major industry, unions, business, political parties, every “racial” group, religion, etc…
Political Scale Quiz quiz/ quiz/ Do you fall to the right or left or in the middle? What party today do you most closely align to?
Hamilton Federalist Party
Jefferson Democratic Republicans
Who were Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson? Read biographies and complete questions as a small group You will be the expert group of your founder Fill the “cranial space” with images/words to describe Hamilton/Jefferson You should have one image to represent each of the six categories in the reading