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Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed a stronger U.S. central government
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The first American political party which was in support of a more powerful central government
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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison founded this party that opposed new Federalist ideas of more powerful government.
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Jacksonian democracy is a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man.
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The year Andrew Jackson was elected president and this created the democratic party which supported him.
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By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper mid-western states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.
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The National Union Party was the temporary name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election which was held during the Civil War.
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in 1932, Roosevelt was elected to presidency and his supporters were known as Roosevelt Democrats