Political+Parties

Federalists: Supported Constitution and strong national government.

Republicans: Opposed Constitution and wanted weak national government with agrarian society.

Democratic Party: Oldest political party in United States, supporters of Andrew Jackson, did not have specific ideology of politics, supported more/equal opportunities for all white males

Whig Party: People who opposed Andrew Jackson, supported industrial development based on economic system

American Party: consisted of Know-Nothings (nativists)

Free-Soil Party: antislavery supporters who didn't necessarily oppose it on moral grounds

Republican Party: formed in opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act

Union Party: formed by supporters of Civil War, consisted mainly of Republicans and War Democrats

Liberal Republican Party: Republicans who opposed President Ulysses S. Grant's ways due to corruption

National Greenback Party: supporters of greenbacks (paper currency issued during Civil War)

Socialist Labor Party: consisted of people who did not support Social Darwinism but the party failed to become a major political force

American Socialist Party: formed by a faction of the Socialist Labor Party and became more successful than its predecessor

Populists (People's Party): consisted of mostly farmers who were against monopolies

Know-Nothings: consisted of nativists who wanted to pass anti-immigration laws

Progressive Party: formed by Roosevelt and supporters who wanted social and poltiical reform

American Communist Party: supporters of a classless society where the government controlled most of the economy