Assignment 10/22/13

Antifederalists:
     1. They battled over the ratification of the Constitution.
     2.  They believed that the Constitution would cause disputes over the years.

Federalists:
     1. They supported the ratification of the Constitution.
     2. Alexander Hamilton served as secretary of the treasury in the new government organized by George Washington. They were, by large, the party of "the rich and the well-bon."

1800-1860 Democrats:
     1.  They wanted voting rights for all white males and huge increase in the number of elected offices around the country, and the spread of spoils system.
      2. The Democrats, led by Jackson, were a coalition of small farmers, debtors, frontier pioneers, and slaveholders.

Whigs:
     1. The Whigs were opposed to the tenets of Jacksonian democracy and strongly supported a high tariff.
     2. The party consisted of a loose coalition of eastern bankers, merchants, and industrials, and many owners of large southern plantations.

1860-1932 Democrats:
     1. They opposed sectionalism and helped push the nations party politics back toward the economic arena.
     2. Businesses supported these ideas.

1860-1932 Republicans:
     1. The would act to advance the rights of African Americans.
     2. They were supported by business and financial interests, and by farmers, laborers, and newly freed African Americans.

1932-1968 Democrats:
     1. There goal was to restore the nations economic and social life.
     2. The southerners, farmers and a big-city political organizations supported them.

1932-1968 Republicans:
     1. They also had the goal to restore the nations economic and social life.
     2. Northerners and Manufacturers supported these Republicans.