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Tea Party
The Tea Party formed in 1773 during the Boston Tea Party when men and women dared to defy the greatest military might on earth. It is filled with tthose who possess a strong belief in the foundational Judeo-Christian values embedded in the nation's founding documents. It is a, "grassroots movement that calls awareness to any issue which challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America." They are extremely conservative. -
Federalist Party
The Federalist Party was committed to creating a fiscally sound and nationalistic government. The Federalist policies called for a national bank, tariffs, and good relations with Britain. Hamilton developed the concept of implied powers, and strongly supported the United States Constitution. -
Anti-Federalist Party
The Anti-Federalist Party was a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and later opposed the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. The Articles of Confederation gave state governments more authority, and they worried that the position of president might evolve into a monarchy. -
Realignment Period
In 1800, the Federalist party was so badly beaten that the party disappeared entirely, and was later replaced by another party. -
Democratic Party
The Democratic Party first held office in the election of 1800. evolved from Anti-Federalist factions that opposed the fiscal policies of Alexander Hamilton in the early 1790s. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized these groups into the Democratic-Republican Party. The party favored states' rights and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. The party opposed a national bank and wealthy, moneyed interests. It is now one of the two main political parties in the United States. -
Republican Party
This party was ounded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, such as the Whigs. The Republican Party was briefly popular as the Know Nothing Party. The main cause of its creation was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. Today, the Republican Party is one of the two main political parties in the nation. -
Realignment Period
The Republican Party was formed in 1856 in clear opposition to slavery. This caused the Democratic Party to split in half in 1860, and allowed Lincoln and the Republicans to win. -
Realignment Period
Similar to the realignment period of 1800, in 1860 a realignment period occurred because the Whig party was so brutally beaten, that the party disappeared as a whole. -
Greenbackers
This party was created after the American Civil War and they were strongly against the reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation. -
Populist Party
The Populist Party formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads. It consisted primarily of remnants of the Farrners' Alliance and Greenback party. They sought to inflate the currency with silver dollars and to establish an income tax but some of its platform was adopted by the Democrats in 1896 and it died out after the defeat of William Jennings Bryan. -
Realignment Period
The economic issues of the 1880s and 90s along with the formation of the Greenbackers and Populists led to this realignment.The Republicans stood for industry and business, while the Democrats stood for farmers, small towns, low tariffs, and rural interests (S and MW states). The Republicans won, carrying the cities, workers and business people. The country is now split, East verses West, instead of North verses South, like during the Civil War. -
Bull Moose Party
When Roosevelt left office in 1909, he selected Taft, his Secretary of War to succeed him as President. Roosevelt quickly became disappointed by Taft's increasingly conservative policies, and decided to create his own party in order to run for reelection. In doing this, though, he split the vote, and Wilson was eaily able to win the election. -
Realignment Period
The New Deal coalition that emerged was based on bringing together into the Democratic party urban workers, northern blacks, southern whites, and Jewish voters. This realignment occurred suddenly and there was a great shift of black voters to the Democratic party after the election of Roosevelt. Before this, the majority of blacks had been heavily Republican. because the Republicans ended slavery.
