THE TIMELINE OF POLITICAL PARTIES

Soderia Kakoulakis, Wendy Wen, Angela Mei, Kevin Zhang,

Yahui Liang

FEDERALISTS

Time period: 1787-1788 

Platform: Ratify Constitution, stronger central

gov’t

Origin: debate over ratification

Key People: Washington, Hamilton, Franklin,

Jefferson, Madison

Supporters: people on Atlantic coast, city dwellers

Decline: transformed into the

Federalists/Hamiltonians 

ANTI-FEDERALISTS

Time Period: 1789-1790Started by being opposed to Federalists and the ConstitutionSupport strong state governments

• Anti-Federalists Papers• Opposed Constitution of 1787

• Supporter of Articles of Confederation• Afraid that president may become something of a monarch

Farmers/Tradesmen

Patrick Henry/James Monroe /James Winthrop/Richard Henry

Lee/Patrick Henry

Decline: Time

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS

1792-1824

Dispute between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the

Constitution

Support of strong Central Government• Strict interpretation of the Constitution • Pro-French• Small peacetime army and navy• Favor agriculture• No national bank• Opposed tariffs

Thomas Jefferson/James Madison

Skilled workers, small farmers, plantation owners

Decline: States rights

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

Only one party:  the Republicans!

Time period: 1817-1825

Decline of political bitterness, lots of nationalism

Key People: James Monroe, Henry Clay

1828 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

1828 NATIONAL REPUBLICANS

-Founded: 1825

Origin: Disputes between the government policies of Andrew

Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Platform/key issues- American System (High tariffs, internal

improvements, Bank of the United States)

Key people: John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay

Supporters: Northerners

Decline: The loss of the election of 1832, Henry Clay lost. Turned

into the Whig party

1834 WHIGS

Time period: 1834-1856

Origin: the whig party emerged from the reaction to the authoritarian policies of 

Andrew Jackson.

Platform/key issues: American System, Manufacturing, issue of slavery split the

whig party, strong federal government.

Key people: Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, Millard

Fillmore,

Supporters: Northeast and boarder states, doctors, lawyers, merchants,

ministers, bankers, storekeepers, factory owners, commercially-oriented farmers

and large-scale planters

Decline- Slavery

1848 FREE SOIL PARTY

Found: 1848

Origin: The anti-slavery members of the Whig and Democratic parties

Platform: Opposed the expansion of slavery into western  territories,

"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men" 

Key Figures: Martin Van Buren, John P. Hale, Salmon P. Chase 

Supporters: Upstate New York, Western Massachusetts, Ohio, former

anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party 

Events: Election of 1848, Election of 1852 

Dissolved: 1854

1860 SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN DEMOCRATS

KNOW NOTHING PARTY

Found: 1845 à originated in new york

Origin: Fears the America was being over run by immigrants

Supporters: Protestant males of British lineage, mostly middle-class workers and

farmers, nativists (against german/irish immigrants)

Platform: Severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries.• Restricting political office to native-born Americans of English and/or

Scottish lineage and Protestant persuasion.• Restricting public school teacher positions to Protestants.• Mandating daily Bible readings in public schools.• Restricting the use of languages other than English.

Key Figures: Millard Fillimore, Andrew Jackson Donelson

Events: Election of 56, Louisville Riot

SOCIALIST PARTY

Founded: August 1, 1901

Origin: Socialism and Labor Disputes

Platform: The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of

domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender,

race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.

Key people: Eugene V.. Debs, Victor Berger, Meyer London, Alfred

Wagenknecht, and Morris Hillquit

Supporters: Trade Unions, Progressives, social reformers, populist, and

immigrants

Dissolved: December 31. 1972, succeeded by Socialist Party USA

MODERN REPUBLICANS

Key People:• Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, George W Bush

Platform:• Programs to help the poor and aged, Supply-side economics, Oppose

abortion, Against gay rights

Time Period:• 1952 – present

Origin:• Eisenhower favored a more moderate course• Preserve individual freedom and market economy yet insure that gov’t

would provide necessary assistance to workers who had lost their jobs or to senior citizens

Supporters:• Industries• High-income voters• Conservatives and moderates

MODERN DEMOCRATS

Time period: 1932-  present

Origin: FDR’s New Deal

Platform: Big gov’t (liberal), social progressivism

Key People: FDR, Clinton, Obama

Supporters: professionals, youth, labor unions,

working class, gays and lesbians, African Americans,

women

TEA PARTY

Founded: 2009

Origin: a series of locally- and nationally-coordinatedprotests. The protests are partially in

response to several Federal laws: the Emergency Ecomonic Stabilization Act the American

Recovery and Reinvestment Act  and the 2009-2010 Healthcare Reform Bill.

Platform: The Contract from America is a political agenda of the Tea Party

movement which was proposed on April 15, 2010 at the Washington Monument in

Washington D.C. The introduction states that it is based on the principles of

individual liberty, limited government and economic freedom.

Key people: Dick Armey, Sarah Palin,

Supporters: Republicans, Conservatives,

Decline