Timeline

  • Federalists Party

    Federalists Party
    -This was the first United States political party
    -Federalists held that capitol and industry were the basis of a healthy republic
    -Aslo that the federal government should act to protect the country's infant industry
  • Anti-Federalist Party

    Anti-Federalist Party
    -They also called themselves the Democratic--Republicans
    -They got their followers from planters, small farmers, and artisans
    -In foreign affairs they sympathized with Revolutionary France
  • Democrats Party

    Democrats Party
    -They were successors of Jeffersonian democracy
    -They favored localism and freedom from modern institutio0ns such as banks, factories, and reform movements
    -They had a commitment to states' rights, a limited government, and an agrarian ideal
  • Whig Party

    Whig Party
    -Formed out of the National Republican Party
    -They were nationalist, supported internal improvments, and moral reforms
    -They also desired gradual westward expansion in cogruence with economic growth and corsiderization
  • Liberty Party

    Liberty Party
    -They stand on the anti-slavery platform
    - they had several planks for equal rights and the elimination of racial discrimination in the North
    -The party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement
  • Republican Party

    Republican Party
    -They grew out of the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854
    -It became more moderate in its stance on the exclusion of slavery and denounced John Brown's Raid
    -The platform endorsed a protective tariff, the Homestead Act, and internal improvments