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Party of the rich and well-born. Favored the federal system.
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Led by Thomas Jefferson. Believed in a strict constructionist view of the Constitution.
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Unopposed in government until the 1820s. They were what used to be known as the Anti-Federalists.
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Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party that includes small farmers, debtors, frontier pioneers, and slaveholders.
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The civil war crippled the Democrats, so the Republicans were left to run the country for the next 75 years.
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Franklin Roosevelt was elected president. The party focused on social welfare and economic programs.
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Liberal, favor minimum wage, progressive taxation, decrease military spending, support for abortion, and social responsibility
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Advocate the theory of supply side economics