APUSH POLITICAL PARTIES

Federalists

1790s

Strong central gov, pro-British, national bank

Alexander Hamilton

Democratic-Republicans

1790s–1820s

States’ rights, pro-farmer, strict Constitution interpretation

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison

Democrats (Jacksonian)

1828–today

Populism, limited fed power (later pro-slavery, then evolves)

Andrew Jackson

Whigs

1830s–1850s

Pro-infrastructure, anti-Jackson, moral reform

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster

Free Soil Party

1848–1854

Stop slavery’s spread (not abolitionist), support free white labor

Martin Van Buren

Know-Nothing Party

1850s

Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic (nativist)

Republican Party

1854–today

Stop slavery’s spread (then abolition), pro-business, pro-tariff

Abraham Lincoln

Radical Republicans

1860s–1870s

Full civil rights for freedmen, punish South, federal enforcement

Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner

Populist Party (People’s)

1890s

Free silver, farmer support, anti-elite, regulate railroads

William Jennings Bryan (endorsed)

Progressive Party

1900s–1920s

Reform gov, business regulation, women's rights

Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette