Unit 2 Objectives

By hkmusick
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    Hamilton led the Federalists who wanted a strong national government and appealed to financial, manufacturing, and commercial interest. Federalists were the party of the rich and well born. Jefferson's followers were more sympathetic to the common man; he believed in strict Constructionist view of the Constitution; led the Anti-Federalists, aka Jeffersonian Republicans or the Democrats
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    Democratic-Republicans were unopposed in government until the mid 1820s

  • Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party came to power

    Democrats were crippled by the war, this means Republicans were left to run the country as they wished for the next 75 years; Democrats were scared the Republicans would give African Americans more rights and thus the Democrats dominated the South for the next 100 years
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    The Party of Lincoln

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    The Great Depression

    Led to a change in political landscape

  • FDR, a democrat, was elected to presidency. (Roosevelt Democrats)

    Republican Democrats were southerners, small farmers, organized labor, and big city political organizations, the party focused mainly on social welfare and economic programs
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    Since 1968 we have had a government characterized by neither party consistently holding power - divided government

    Modern Democrats - liberal, favor a minimum wage and progression taxation, decrease military spending, support legallity of abortion, believe in community and that people should be socially responsible