HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES "In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time." --Thomas Jefferson

History of Political Parties The First Parties FEDERALISTS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS

History of Political Parties FOUNDING DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1787 THOMAS JEFFERSON 1796

History of Political Parties GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS Strong Central Government Limited National Government

History of Political Parties FOLLOWERS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS Northern businessmen Bankers Merchants Planters Small farmers Artisans

History of Political Parties WHAT DID THEY WANT? DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS Federal government should act to protect the country’s industries Government to leave them alone as much as possible

History of Political Parties FAMOUS LEADERS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS John Adams Thomas Jefferson

History of Political Parties THE END OF AN ERA DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS Changed name to the Democrats with the election of Andrew Jackson Lost control of the Government in 1800

History of Political Parties A NEW BEGINNING DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS Whigs Jacksonian Democrats

History of Political Parties 1800 - 1816 FEDERALISTS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS

History of Political Parties The New Parties WHIGS DEMOCRATS

History of Political Parties FOUNDING DEMOCRATS WHIGS Former Federalists and Anti Jackson Democrats 1828 Andrew Jackson 1828

History of Political Parties SLAVERY AND STATE’S RIGHTS DEMOCRATS WHIGS Northern abolitionists left the party Lost voters to the Know Nothings Started to go to pieces Divided into Northern and Southern branches Southern believed in slavery and state’s rights The extremists believed in secession

History of Political Parties 1800 - 1816 FEDERALISTS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS WHIGS DEMOCRATS 1816 - 1828

History of Political Parties PARTIES TODAY DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS

History of Political Parties THE BEGINNING DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS Formed in opposition to slavery Abraham Lincoln first Republican president Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal”

History of Political Parties 1800 - 1816 FEDERALISTS DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICANS WHIGS DEMOCRATS 1816 - 1828 Those who opposed slavery REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS 1860

History of Political Parties Last Republican President Last Democratic President Current President Donald Trump Republican # 45