United States Political System Timeline

  • Federalist and anti federalist

    Federalist and anti federalist
    During the creation of america two first parties were born Federalist and Anti-Federalists. Federalists desired a strong central government but ant- federalists wanted the opposite and wanted more power to states.
  • Democratic-Republicans and Jacksonian Democrats.

    Democratic-Republicans and Jacksonian Democrats.
    After the reign era of Anti- federalists labels many other groups emerged out of the part such as jacksonians, democratic-rep.
  • Era of republicans.

    Era of republicans.
    Over the span of a few more years another new party would emerge called the The party Of Lincoln named after the 16th president of the u.s. This party was created because slavery had caused a divide in political view in the U.S.
  • Roosevelt Democrats.

    Roosevelt Democrats.
    The era that was Theodore Roosevelt's term in office can be called the progressive era. Many acts were passed such as pure food and drug act but also the 17th amendment.
  • Modern Republicans

    Modern Republicans
    During the 20th and 21st centuries the party came to be associated with laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes, and conservative social policies. The party acquired the acronym GOP, widely understood as “Grand Old Party,” in the 1870s. The party’s official logo, the elephant, is derived from a cartoon by Thomas Nast and also dates from the 1870s.
  • Modern Democrates

    Modern Democrates
    By the mid-20th century it had undergone a dramatic ideological realignment and reinvented itself as a party supporting organized labour, the civil rights of minorities, and progressive reform. Since Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s, the party has also tended to favour greater government intervention in the economy and to oppose government intervention in the private noneconomic affairs of citizens. The logo of the Democratic Party, the donkey, was popularized.