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  2. First Party System - Wikipedia

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    The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. [1] 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 ...

  3. The origins of American political parties: a crash course

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    The Federalists were the first American political party in 1787. They were businessmen and merchants who wanted a strong central government to protect industry.

  4. Political party - Wikipedia

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    A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or policy goals.

  5. Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...

  6. Political eras of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This party system marked the first in a series of political realignments, a process in which a prominent third party coalition, often one that wins >10% of the popular vote in multiple states in a presidential election, realigns into one of the major parties, allowing that major party to dominate the federal government and/or presidency for the ...

  7. Political history of the world - Wikipedia

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    The political history of the world is the history of the various political entities created by the human race throughout their existence and the way these states define their borders. Throughout history , political systems have expanded from basic systems of self-governance and monarchy to the complex democratic and totalitarian systems that ...

  8. Third Party System - Wikipedia

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    Hanna spent $3.5 million in three months for speakers, pamphlets, posters, and rallies that all warned of doom and anarchy if Bryan should win, and offered prosperity and pluralism under William McKinley. Party loyalty itself weakened as voters were switching between parties much more often. It became respectable to declare oneself an ...

  9. The story behind political party mascots

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    While the mascots of Democrats and Republicans are well known, you may not be aware of the origins behind them. The Democratic donkey was first used in Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign.