THE TWO PARTY TRADITION

Phase 1: 1789-1800

Federalists

Government of the wealthy, best educated

Strong Central GOV

Support commerce, manufacturing

Executive leadership

Phase 2: 1800-1828Democratic-Republicans (or

Jeffersonians)

THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS Soon to be known as THE DEMOCRATIC

PARTY

• Favored the common man• Limited GOV• State Power• Farmers, shop keepers, laborers.

Presidency

• George Washington (No party)• John Adams (Federalist)• Jefferson (Democrat)• Madison (Democrat)• John Quincy Adams (Democrat)

• FEDERALISTS DISAPPEAR

1828-1860

DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS SPLIT INTO:

DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS

AND

JACKSONIAN- DEMOCRATS

Populism

Spoils System

WHIG PARTY 1836

Industry

Plantation Owners feel a need for power and impact

PHASE 3: SLAVERY 1850

• Democratic split into northern and southern camps

• Whig party breaks up and absorbed by NEW Republican 1854 party that opposed slavery. (Lincoln was a

Republican)

PHASE 4: 1896-1932

Republican Party Splits: But maintains control of the policy

Regular Republicans (Taft)

Progressives (Teddy)

Phase 5: 1932-1968

• Democratic Control:

• Yet Deep division among the ranks.

• Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War saw a country divided.

WE END UP WITH…

• DEMOCRATS=

• REPUBLICANS (GRAND OLD PARTY)=

AND…LIBERALS

• individual rights. • It seeks a society characterized by

freedom of thought for individuals, • limitations on power (especially of

government and religion), • the rule of law, • the free exchange of ideas, • a market economy that supports free

private enterprise

AND…CONSERVATIVES

• favors free markets, • traditional values• strong foreign defense. • The term derives from to conserve;

from Latin conservāre, "to keep, guard, observe".

• Some seek to preserve the status quo, while others seek to return to the values of an earlier time.

LIBERALS: BIG

• BIG GOVERNMENT

PROTECTS FREEDOMS

• BIG Spending

• BIG Social Programs

• BIG Freedom…Less POLICE

CONSERVATIVES: LITTLE

• LITTLE GOVERNMENT

• LITTLE spending

• LITTLE social programs

• LITTLE FREEDOM…MORE POLICE

HOW DOES IT END UP?

LIKE THIS…..