THE TWO PARTY TRADITION

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THE TWO PARTY TRADITION
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1796-1860

• Federalists
• Government of the wealthy, best educated
• Strong Central GOV
• Support commerce, manufacturing
• Executive leadership

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Democratic-Republicans (or Jeffersonians)

• Soon to be known as THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Favored the common man
• Limited GOV
• State Power
• Farmers, shop keepers, laborers.

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Presidency

• George Washington (No party)
• John Adams (Federalist)
• Jefferson (Democrat)
• FEDERALISTS DISAPPEAR

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DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS

• SPLIT INTO
• DEMOCRATS
• AND NATIONAL REPUBLICANS (KNOWN AS WHIGS)

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SLAVERY 1850

• Democratic split into northern and southern camps
• Whig party breaks up and absorbed by NEW
  Republican party that opposed slavery. (Lincoln
  was a
• Republican)

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WE END UP WITH

• DEMOCRATS
• REPUBLICANS (GRAND OLD PARTY)

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ANDLIBERALS

• individual rights.
• It seeks a society characterized by freedom of
  thought for individuals,
• limitations on power (especially of government
  and religion),
• the rule of law,
• the free exchange of ideas,
• a market economy that supports free private
  enterprise

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ANDCONSERVATIVES

• favors free markets,
• traditional values
• strong foreign defense.
• The term derives from to conserve from Latin
  conservare, "to keep, guard, observe".
• Some seek to preserve the status quo, while
  others seek to return to the values of an earlier
  time.

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• LIBERALS BIG
• BIG GOVERNMENT
• PROTECTS FREEDOMS
• BIG Spending
• BIG Social Programs
• BIG FreedomLess POLICE

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CONSERVATIVES LITTLE

• LITTLE GOVERNMENT
• LITTLE spending
• LITTLE social programs
• LITTLE FREEDOMMORE POLICE

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HOW DOES IT END UP?

• LIKE THIS..