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Political Parties Timeline

By aldonunez333

  • 1789 Independent Party

    George Washington becomes the 1st President of the United States. He was not formally affiliated with any Political Parties during his two terms in office and therefore classed as an Independent. All members of the new government supported him as an impartial president and wanted to give the Constitution a fair trial

  • 1797 Federalist Party Federalist Papers

    John Adams is elected president for the Federalist Party who believed that the new central government, and the well-educated, wealthy classes, should be given the greatest power of government. The Federalist Papers explained the Constitution to the American people and promoted the concept of Federalism

  • 1797 Anti-Federalist Party

    Adams and the Federalist party were opposed by the Anti-Federalist Party who believed that the vast majority of ordinary, less educated people, had the skills and common sense required to run the government.

  • 1798 Republican Party

    The Anti-Federalist party was re-named as the Republican Party reflecting the ideals of Republicanism supporting states’ rights and a strict interpretation of the Constitution

  • 1798 The Democratic-Republican Party

    The Federalists tried to discredit the Republican Party by naming them Democratic-Republicans to convey the extreme and radical actions taken in the name of democracy during the French Revolution. However, the Jeffersonian Republicans admired the strong anti-monarchist sentiments of the French and their belief of the principle of government by the people - so the name "Democratic-Republican" stuck.

  • 1798The Democratic-Republican Party Jeffersonian Republicans

    The Federalists tried to discredit the Republican Party by naming them Democratic-Republicans to convey the extreme and radical actions taken in the name of democracy during the French Revolution. However, the Jeffersonian Republicans admired the strong anti-monarchist sentiments of the French and their belief of the principle of government by the people - so the name "Democratic-Republican" stuck.

  • 1800 Democratic-Republican Party

    Thomas Jefferson, leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, was elected the third president of the United States. The Democratic-Republican Party adhered to the Constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government and was strongly opposed to aristocracy, monarchy, corruption and elitism

  • 1815 Fall of the Federalist Party

    The Federalists bitterly opposed the rising power of the Democratic-Republicans and held secret meetings at the Hartford Convention to air their views reproaching Madison's administration and the War of 1812, some delegates favored secession. The War of 1812 ended with a sense of victory and sealed the destruction of the Federalist party. The secrecy of the Hartford Convention discredited the Federalists who were seen as too extreme and disloyal and even branded as "traitors".

  • 1824 National Republican Party

    The Democratic-Republican party split into several factions, taking the names of their party leaders: the Adams men (supporting John Quincy Adams), the Clay men (supporting Henry Clay). The Adams and Clay factions began to act together and to call themselves National Republicans, because they wished to build up the nation's resources, specifically National Defense, following the War of 1812. Refer to the National Republican Party

  • 1860 National Union Party

    Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 as the first leader of the National Union Party. Upon Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, Andrew Johnson became the only other National Union President. The 'National Union Party' then changed its name to the Republican Party.

  • Roosevelt democrat

    ndeed 1910-1942 was a period of mostly Democratic domination of New York politics with only 8 years of GOP governors in control during that time. Governors Dix took over with a Tammany Hall-backed Democratic Assembly in New York State right as FDR was entering politics in 1911. Throwing his lot in with the GOP, even though he probably would have won an upstate district would have earned him an irrelevant spot in the minority party. Siding with Democrats put him on track for the White House.

  • 2018 Modern Republican

    which preserved individual freedom and the market economy yet insured that government would provide necessary assistance to workers who had lost their jobs or to the ill or aged, who through no fault of their own,

  • 2018 Modern Democrat

    The Democrats nominated Bryan as their presidential candidate three times: in 1896, in 1900 and in 1908 — when the Democratic convention was last held in Denver. He lost all three contests and then capped his career with the terrible blunder of attempting to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools. After his storied clash with Clarence Darrow at the famed Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee in 1925, he became a figure of ridicule.