1. D EVELOPMENT OF P OLITICAL P ARTIES IN THE US

2. E SSENTIAL Q UESTION : H OW DID INABILITY TO REACH CONSENSUS PROMPT THE CREATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES ? We want to know how political parties came about “inability to reach consensus” just means people couldn’t agree on issues So…they got together with people who thought similarly to them and created parties

3. 1. F EDERALIST P ARTY Wanted to make the federal government stronger Wanted to promote trade and industry Popular in New England…because they had most of the industry and trade! Thought that only the wealthy and educated should run the government Alexander Hamilton and John Adams

4. 2. D EMOCRATIC -R EPUBLICAN P ARTY Called Republicans (but not the same Republican party as today) Wanted to limit the power of the government Most popular in the South and later in the West More popular with the farmers and “the everday man” Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

5. A TTACKS Republicans called the Federalists a British Party Federalists said that Republicans were influenced too much by the French

6. P OLITICS IN THE N EW N ATION Not everyone was granted access to publicly participate in politics You had to be a man and own enough land to be able to vote Women were not allowed to vote African Americans, Native Americans were not allowed to vote