political parties

By laelfadely

  • Constitutional Convention with the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.

  • The Democratic-Republicans were unopposed in government until the mid 1820s

  • In 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party (which came out of the Democratic-Republicans) came to power

  • Democrats were crippled by the war

  • In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat, was elected to the presidency.

  • Since 1968, we have had a government characterized by neither party consistently holding power – divided government