How the United States became a 2 party system

By mmunson12

  • Federalists became a party

    http://www.ushistory.org/us/19c.asp
    They were in favor of the constitution

  • Anti-federalists

    They created their own party after the Federalists came into exsistance.

  • Election of 1796

    http://www.ushistory.org/us/19c.asp

  • Democratic Party Creation

    Thomas Jefferson created this party

  • Jacksonian Democrats

    Jackson's party included farmers, pioneers, and slaveholders

  • Republican Party

    Is created

  • The Party of Lincoln

    Lincoln became the new Republican leader.

  • Todays divided government

    Every election that we continue to have since 1968, neither party has consistently been in office.