Political+Parties


 * Federalists - The Federalists believed in a strong central government and followed strict construction.
 * Republicans - The Republicans believed that the Constitution was appropriate but also wanted to protect the rights of citizens. As loose constructionists thety felt that if somehting was not specified in the Constitution then they could take it into their own power.
 * Democrats - The Democratic Party first evolved from the Anti Federalists Party, who had opposed Alexander Hamilton's policies. During the election of 1800 the Democratic-Republican Party rose to power and then eventually split to form the Democrats supported by the principles of the Jeffersonian Era.
 * Whigs - The Whig Party formed in the Jacksonian Era based off the opposition of Andrew Jackson and his democratic party. The Whigs support more power in Congress than for the president and modernization
 * Populist (People's Party)- This party was based on poor white Southern cotton farmers and those who opposed elites, railroads, and banks
 * Anti Federalist - This party opposed the Federalist party (hence their name) because they did not agree that there should be a centralized government where the federal government had more power than the state governments.
 * Progressive (Bull Moose) - This party was formed after the split of the Republican Party between President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt
 * Communists - A party that created full equality for its people, there wasn't competition like in America's capitalist nation. When Korea split into North and South, the north became communist and the south became nationalist. The communist party had spread its influence from Germany to China to Korea and several eastern European countries
 * Socialists
 * Nationalists - When Korea split into North and South, the north became communist and the south became nationalist
 * Free-soil: a party that formed from the combination of people from the whig party and the liberty party who did not want the spread of more slavery into the west
 * Peoples Party (Populists): formed in 1891 to promote the expansion of currency and state control of railroads
 * Know Nothings:
 * Radicals
 * Jacksonians
 * Jeffersonians