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First Party System
They began calling themselves the Federalists. This was the first United States political party ever created. It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the time the Republican Party. -
Start of The Anti-Federalists
Since the United States Constitution was written in the same time the First Party System was made, it was immediately and got unanimously ratified by the states the following year, which then took it's full effect in 1789. The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution became Federalists and the opponents were called "Anti"- Federalists. This is basically how this political party was formed in the first place. -
The Start of The Democratic-Republican Party
The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was secretary of the treasury and chief architect of George Washington's administration. This is similar to the Anti-Federalist Party. -
The Start of The Jacksonian Democracy
The Jacksonian Democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined. Originating with the 7th U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for generations to come. -
The First "Modern" Republicans
Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. Soon after, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states. This REALLY began to form in February. -
The Rise of The Republicans
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two most major political parties in all of the United States, while the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. This party was named after republicanism, which was a major ideology of the American Revolution. The Republicans still exist today. -
The First "Modern" Democrats
Since the Democratic Party was formed in 1792, when supporters of Thomas Jefferson began using the name Republicans, or Jeffersonian Republicans, to emphasize its anti-aristocratic policies, it adopted its present name during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson in the 1830s.