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Political Parties and key eleections review

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3. Development of Political Parties and Key Elections
Adapted by R. Horner from M. Ellington, N. Miller and J. Rozensweig

4. Phases of the Party System
First Party System – late 1790s and early 1800s
Parties not really legitimate institutions
Factions
Federalist / Republican (Hamilton / Jefferson)
Second Party System – mid s
Politics of the people (Jackson)
Democrats / Whigs
Third Party System – post war
Republicans / Democrats
Close elections and high electoral turnout
Highly personal elections
Ends with McKinley
Fourth Party System – 1896 – 1932
Republican party dominance (28 of next 36 yrs)
Decreasing voter participation and weakening political parties
Rise of new issues: industrial regulation and labor issues
Fifth Party System
Started with FDR and the New Deal
Period of Democratic dominance
All periods, except the 5th, were about 40 years long.

5. Development after the Revolutionary War
Continuity from the Revolutionary War
Political Parties in the 1790s
Essentials of a political party
Issues that mattered
Hamilton’s Policies
Split over Foreign Affairs
Alien and Sedition Acts
Parties by 1800

6. First Two Party System Federalists V. Republicans 1780’s-1801
Federalists favored strong central government
Republicans favored states’ rights
In practice the generalization about the two parties were often blurred and sometimes contradicted

7. Second Two-Party System
Democrats v. Whigs
Democrats were the party of tradition
Whigs were the party of modernization

8. Mid-19th Century Political Crisis
Disputes over slavery in the territories first erode, then destroy what had become America’s second 2 party system. The erosion began in the 1840s as various factions opposed the post Jackson Democratic political coalition begin to form.
Liberty Party: Run abolitionist candidate
Free Soil Party: Not abolitionist but opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories
Whigs: Split over slavery
American Party: “Know Nothing” party
Republican Party: Formed in 1854, a coalition of independent Dems, Free Soilers, and Conscious Whigs united in opposition to the Kansas- Nebraska Bill

9. The Election of 1860
Democrats: Split at 1860 convention when a platform defending slavery was defeated and Deep South walked out.
Republicans: Overtly sectional and opposed to slavery. Platform favored homestead act, protective tariff, and transportation improvements.

10. Politics of the Gilded Age Crisis
Republicans and Democrats: Party differences blur, loyalties determined by region, religious and ethnic differences.
Populist party: Formed in 1891 by remnant of the Farmers’ Alliances

11. Progressive Era Politics
Covered 3 presidencies: TR (Repub). Taft (Repub) and Wilson (Dem)

12. The Republican Era
Both Presidency and Congress dominated by Republicans
Presidents: Harding, Coolidge and Hoover

13. The Political Legacy of the New Deal
Created a Democratic party Coalition that would dominate American Politics for many years
1948 The “Liberal” or Dem coalition split into two branches
States’ Rights and Progressive Party

14. Post WW2 Politics Democrats and Republicans
Dems: organized labor, urban voters and immigrants
Republicans: Pro Business

15. Nixon’s New Federalism
Democrats: by 1960’s deeply fragmented and seemingly incapable of dealing with the violence and turmoil, social and political, caused of Vietnam
Republicans: Opposition to the War in Vietnam and to growing federal social programs “converts” southern Democrats to vote Republican in increasing numbers

16. Reagan and the “New Right”
Democrats: Support environmental legislation, limiting economic development, halting the production of nuclear weapons and power plants
Republicans: fueled by the “liberal” social agenda of the Dems and spurred on by the rise of a militant and well organized Evangelical Christianity most southern states begin voting Republican in considerable majorities.

17. Key Elections

18. Election of 1800 -"Revolution of 1800"
-Sweep by Jeffersonian Republicans
-Jefferson ties w/Burr
Leads to passage of 12th Amendment
-peaceful transfer of power
-less long-term impact than anticipated

19. Election of 1824
-4 way presidential race (Adams, Jackson, Clay, Crawford)
-decision in House of Reps.
-Clay's "corrupt bargain" with J. Q. Adams
-Ends "Era of Good Feelings"

20. Election of 1828 Jackson vs. J.Q. Adams -"mudslinging"
-"Revolution of 1828"
-power of the common man and the West

21. Election of 1860 4 way race (Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell)
-severe regional allegiances
-results lead directly to S.C. secession
CIVIL WAR!

22. Election of 1876 -Hayes vs. Tilden
-Disputed electoral votes in the South
-"Compromise of 1877"
--Hayes is President
--Reconstruction ends

23. Election of 1896 McKinley vs. Bryan -"Cross of Gold" speech
-Mark Hanna and the "Gold Bugs"
-Beginning of 4th Party System

24. Election of 1912 -4 way race (Taft, Wilson, T. Roosevelt, and Debs)
-"Bull Moose" Progressives split Republican vote
-Wilson only Democratic Pres. in 4th Party System

25. Election of 1920 -Harding vs. Cox -Referendum on the League of Nations
-"A Return to Normalcy"

26. Election of 1932 -FDR vs. Hoover -A "New Deal" for the "Forgotten Man"
-"Happy Days Are Here Again"
-"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Beginnings of 5th Party System

27. Election of 1948 -4 way race (Truman, Dewey, Thurmond, and Wallace)
-Dixiecrats and Wallace's Progressives divide Dem. Vote
Dixiecrats: candidate Strom Thurmond
To protect their way of life against an “oppressive federal government”
-"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN“
The beginnings of modern professional polling: a cautionary lesson

28. Election of 1960 -JFK vs. Nixon LBJ as vp choice to attract S
“balancing the ticket”
-Impact of television on the election
-Southern electors defect
14 unpledged Democratic electors from Alabama & Mississippi vote for Harry Byrd
First Catholic president
Both houses of Congress are D
“the New Frontier”

29. Election of 1968 -LBJ chooses not to run -RFK is assassinated
-Riots at Chicago convention
Anti-war protesters
Presidential Commission report: “a police riot”
HHH runs, saddled with war issue
-Nixon wins (ushering in Republican dominance)

30. Election of 1980 -Reagan vs. Carter -Attack on "big government"
-Rise of the "new conservatism" and the "religious right"

31. Elections of 1992 and 1994 -G.H.W. Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot
-"It's the economy, stupid"
-Clinton misreads anti-incumbent election as Dem. triumph
-'94 election, Republican Contract with America
-Reps misread anti-incumbent election as conservative mandate