Apush: Presidents and Political Parties

Federalist

• Supported ratification

• Desired a stronger central government

• Advantages

  • Strong leaders

  • Well organized

  • Widespread concern about the problems under the Articles

• Disadvantages

  • Constitution was new and untried

  • Original lacked the bill of rights

• Pro-British

• Military policy

  • Develop a large peacetime army and navy

• Economic policy

  • Aid business

  • National bank

  • Support high tariffs

• Chief supporters

  • Northern business owners

  • Large landowners

Anti-Federalists

• Opposed ratification

• Against a stronger central gov →believed it would limit democracy and restrict states rights

• Argued that the proposed constitution had no bill of rights

• Advantages

  • widespread distrust of government

• Disadvantages

  • Less united than Federalists

Democratic republicans

• Supported Jefferson and Madison

• View of constitution

  • Interpret strictly

  • Create a weak central gov

• Pro-French

• Military Policy

  • Develop a small peacetime army and navy

• Economic Policy

  • Favor agriculture

  • Opposed a national bank

  • Opposed high tariffs

• Chief Supporters

  • Skilled workers

  • Small farmers

  • Plantation owners

John Adams

• Federalist

• 1797-1801

Thomas Jefferson

• Democratic-Republican

• 1801-1809

James Madison

• D-R

• 1809-1817

James Monroe

• D-R

• 1817-1825

John Quincy Adams

• D-R

• 1825-1829

Andrew Jackson

• Democratic

• 1829-1837

Martin Van Buren

• Democratic

• 1837-1841

William Henry Harrison

• Whig

• 1841-1841 (Died in office)

John Tyler

• Whig

• 1841-1845

James K. polk

• Democratic

• 1845-1849

Millard Fillmore

• Whig

• 1850-1853

Franklin Pierce

• Democrat

• 1853-1857

James Buchanan

• Democratic

• 1857-1861

Abraham Lincoln

• Republican

• 1861-1865

Andrew Johnson

• Democrat

• 1865-1869

Ulysses S. Grant

• Republican

• 1869-1877

Rutherford B. Hayes

• Republican

• 1877-1881

James Garfield

• Republican

• 1880 (only 4 months)

William McKinley

• Republican

• 1896 and 1900

Theodore Roosevelt

• Republican

• 1901 and reelected in 1904

William Taft

• Republican

• 1908

Woodrow Wilson

• Democrat

• 1912 and 1916

Warren G. Harding

• Republican

• 1920

Calvin Coolidge

• Republican