The History Of America's Two Political Parties.

By keeko069

  • Anti-Federalists were born.

    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.

  • Federalists are established.

    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.

  • Democratic-Republicans were formed.

    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.

  • Jacksonian-Democrats were established.

    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.

  • Roosevelt Democrats are born.

    A gang of political scientists joining together.

  • Modern Republicans are formed.

    Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party.

  • Republicans were created.

    Ulysses Grant was elected President and the first leader of the re-named Republican Party.