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Federalist Party
Start Date: It was founded in 1972
End Date: 1824
Members: The members were mostly wealthy merchants, big property owners in the North, and conservative small farmers and buisnessmen. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay(Federalist Papers). John Adams, Rufus King, John Marshall, Timothy Pickering, and Charles Cotesworth Pickney.
Reasons for beginning of party: They wanted a strong and central government that could regulate trade consistently. -
Federalist Party Continued
Reasons for end: The War of 1812 was a major part and they started to lose support of the general population. After 1804 they declined greatly.
Major Issues: They wanted a national bank, tariffs and good relations with Britian. -
Democratic- Republican Party
Start Date: Feburary 1st, 1792
End Date: It ended after the election of Andrew Jackson in 1824.
Members: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Reasons for beginning: They wanted to limit government control on the people.
Reasons for end: Because Andrew Jackson was elected. -
Major Issues of the Whig Party
Major Issues: Slavery
They wanted to keep the prices high and to distribute the revenue from federal land sales to state governments. -
Whig Party
Start Date: April 14th, 1830
End Date: Ended in 1852
Members: Winfield Scott, William H. Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore
Reasons for beginning: Formed to oppose Andrew Jackson's policies.
Reasons for end: Conscience Whigs in the North favored the abolition of slavery and the Cotton Whigs in the South were the opposite. The Southerners moved to the Democratic Party and the Northerners moved to the newly formed Republican Party. The issue of slavery split them apart. -
Liberty Party
Creation: April 15th, 1840
Death Date: 1840- 1848
Reasons for begin: to further antislavery goals
issue- ending slavery
Members- William Lloyd Garrison, Myron Holley, James G. Birney, Salmon P, Chase, Lysander Spooner, Frederick Douglass -
Free-Soil Party Continued..
- The Free-Soilers' historic slogan calling for "free soil, free speech, free labor, and freemen" attracted small farmers, debtors, village merchants, and household and mill workers, who resented the prospect of black-labour competition-whether slave or free- in the territories. Members: John P.Hale, David Wilmot, Martin Van Buren, and Zachary Taylor
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Free-Soil Party
-Developed in part from a political rivalry in New York State.
-It consisted of the Banburners, who strongly opposed to slavery, and the Hunkers, who were neutral or supportive of slavery.
-In the Election of 1844, both national parties were impacted by the hagging slavery issue.
-Issue: Eliminate slavery in western expansion. -
American Party Continued....
- They split and The American Party focused on more nothern conservatives and Schmitz supporters rather than the American Independent who included more of the Deep South. -Members: Alan Keyes, Mike Huckabee, Tom Anderson, and Ron Paul
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American Party
-The American Party was a conservative party in the U.S. It was a orginally called the American Independent Party, it was renamed in 1969 by representatives from 37 states.
-The American Party has failed to achieve ballot status in any state since 1996. The party's website disappeared sometime in 2008, and the party appears to be defunct.
-The American Party (1969) was a successor of the 1968 American Independent Party. The current American Independent Party split from it in 1976. -
Republican Party
Creation: February 28, 1854
Death: Still continuing
Members: Abraham Lincoln, John Fremont, William McKinley, and Thomas Jefferson
Reasons for creation: Opposed Slavery
Reasons for ending: There are none
Opposition: They opposed slavery, wanted to repeal the Fugutive Slave Act and Kansas- Nebrasa Act. Anyone who was pro- slavery. -
Prohibition Party
Creation: April 15, 1869
Death: In the year of 1933
Members: Earl Dodge, Charles H. Randall, Susanna M. Salter, and John Bidwell
Reasons for creation: Wanted to ban the sale of liquor, thought it caused many problems.
Reasons for end: Repeal of the 21st amemdment.
Opposition: Bootleggers, Establishments that sold liquor illegally, and citizens that didn't agree with the law.
