American Party

Examples of American Party in the following topics:

• The Republican Alternative

  • The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state governments outside New England.
  • Despite the fact that Britain was America's leading trading partner, Republicans feared that trade alliances with Britain would undermine the American republican project.
  • In the election, both parties sought any advantage they could find.

• The Know-Nothings and Democrats

  • The Know-Nothings, or the American Party, grew out of a rising tide of political xenophobia and Protestant revivalism .
  • The party attracted many middle class Protestants, and membership was limited to males of Anglo-American lineage.
  • When asked about their secret activities, members reportedly responded with "I Know Nothing," a phrase that came to be associated with members of the American Party.
  • Democrats strongly favored American expansion to new farm lands and the acquisition of new territories.
  • The portrait is framed by intricate carving and scrollwork surmounted by an eagle with a shield, and is draped by an American flag.

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • The Republican Party was formed out of a loose coalition of Northern ex-Whigs who resented Southern political power.
  • Following the collapse of the Whigs during the election of 1852, a major realignment of the American political party system occurred with former Whigs splintering into various political factions.
  • Anti-immigration and temperance movements formed the platform of the emerging American ("Know-Nothing") Party, while those interested in the economic development of finance and business in the West and North were attracted to the Republican Party.
  • Opponents of the expansion of slavery included those who resented Southern political power, were committed to free labor as the future of American industry, or were morally opposed to slavery itself (for example, abolitionists from the more radical wings of the Republican Party).
  • Explain why the Republican Party emerged after the collapse of the Whig Party

• The Socialist Presence

  • Thus the Socialist Party strongly advocated universal suffrage, in order to politically empower the American proletariat.
  • For example, the American Vigilante Patrol, a subdivision of the American Defense Society, was formed with the purpose "to put an end to seditious street oratory. "
  • Meanwhile, as the Russian Revolution escalated, internal strife among American Socialists caused a schism in the organization.
  • The debate over whether to align with Lenin caused a major rift in the American Socialist party.
  • The expelled members formed the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and the Socialist party was reduced to one third of its original size.

• Tax Protests

  • In the colonial era, Americans insisted on having their own legislature raise all taxes, based on their rights as Englishmen.
  • Beginning in 1765 the British Parliament asserted its supreme authority to lay taxes, and a series of American protests began that led directly to the American Revolution.
  • The Boston Tea Party of 1773, the most popular example, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax Americans refused to pay.
  • The British responded by trying to crush traditional liberties in Massachusetts, leading to the American revolution starting in 1775.
  • During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of a hidden tax.

• Partisan Politics

  • The Gilded party era was characterized by intense voter interest, routinely high voter turnout, and unflinching party loyalty.
  • In the South, the Republicans won strong support from the freedmen (newly enfranchised African Americans), but the party was usually controlled by local whites ("scalawags") and opportunistic Yankees ("carpetbaggers").
  • The Third Party System is a term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to describe a period in American political history from about 1854 to the mid-1890s that featured profound developments in issues of nationalism, modernization, and race.
  • By the mid-1870s, it was clear that Confederate nationalism was dead; all but the most ardent Republican "Stalwarts" agreed that the southern Republican coalition of African-American freedmen, scalawags, and carpetbaggers was helpless and hopeless.
  • Party loyalty itself weakened as voters were switching between parties much more often.

• The Second Party System

  • A turning point in American political history occurred in 1828,when Andrew Jackson was elected over the incumbent John Quincy Adams.
  • The American political system underwent fundamental change after 1820 under the rubric of Jacksonian democracy.
  • The democratization of American politics was well underway.
  • Minor parties included the Anti-Masonic Party, which was an important innovator from 1827 to 1834 and flourished in only those states with a weak second party; the abolitionist Liberty Party of the 1840s; and the antislavery Free Soil Party, active in the 1848 and 1852 elections.
  • The Second Party System was also the first, and remains the only, party system in which the two major parties remained on about equal footing in every region.

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

  • The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
  • The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
  • The spirit of Jacksonian democracy animated the party from the early 1830s to the 1850s, shaping the Second Party System, with the Whig Party serving as the main opposition.
  • After the disappearance of the Federalists after 1815 and the subsequent "Era of Good Feelings" (1816–1824), a group of weakly organized political factions dominated the American political landscape until about 1828–1832, when the modern Democratic Party emerged along with its rival, the Whigs.
  • During his presidency, Polk lowered tariffs, set up a subtreasury system, and began and directed the Mexican-American War, in which the United States acquired much of the modern-day American Southwest.

• The People's Party and the Election of 1896

  • Discontent with the two major political parties during the 1896 election year led to strong third party efforts by the People's Party.
  • Some people—mostly Democrats—joined the far-left Populist Party.
  • By 1896, the Democratic Party took up many of the People's Party's causes at the national level, and the party began to fade from national prominence.
  • He decried the gold standard, concluding the speech, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. " Bryan's address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination; it is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.
  • Assess the significance to the Populist Party William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign

• The Election of 1852

  • The presidential election of 1852 was the last time the Whig Party nominated a candidate; the party collapsed shortly thereafter.
  • The election of 1852 was the last election in which the Whig Party nominated a candidate before the party collapsed following Winfield Scott’s loss to Franklin Pierce.
  • As a result, Northern Whigs threw their support behind Mexican-American War hero General Winfield Scott of Virginia, who went on to win the party’s nomination.
  • The outcome was a testament to the sectional and organizational weaknesses within the Whig Party.
  • With the demise of the Whig Party, many Northerners, bitterly resenting the heavy enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act under Pierce, began to loosely coalesce with the emerging antislavery Republican Party.