Political Parties 1780's-1980's

  • Anti Federalists and the Federalists

    Anti-Federalists: Oppose Constitution promote Bill of Rights
    Federalists: Promote Constitution
  • Period: to

    Political Parties

    The transition of the major political parties throughout American history.
  • Democratic Republicans and Federalists

    Democrat Republicans: Strict constructionalism
    Federalists: Implied powers and broad interpretation of the U.S. Consitution
  • Democrats and National Republicans

    Democrats: Anti-Bank, against the concentration of government powers
    National Republicans: "American system," believe in internal improvements
  • Whigs

    Whigs: Anti-Jackson
  • Confederacy and Republicans

    Confederacy: South
    Republicans: North
  • Northern Democrats

    Northern Democrats: Southern sympathizers
  • Re-emergence of Democrat

    Northern Northern Democrats and Confederacy converged
  • Democrat

    Emergence of "modern" Democratic party
  • Republican

    Republican: "Modern" Republican party emerges from the Reagan Revolution