Democrats Vs Republicans

Although many consider The United States to be a two-party system, consisting of Democrats and Republicans, there are a plethora of different parties, with varying beliefs. The Democratic and Republican parties are complicated and have complex histories with party beliefs changing as the years went by. Other minor parties, however, tended to stem from either single issues, or that had values that were adopted by the two major parties.

To start, the Democratic party, which shared a part in the name of the Democratic-Republican party which supported Thomas Jefferson’s administration, wasn’t established officially until Andrew Jackson. Under the new Democratic party, Andrew Jackson expanded executive power. Democrats continued to dominate until

With the election of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican party’s origin began. With a motto of “free land, free labor, and free men,” the party appealed to farmers and workers who thought slavery was wrong and that it gave an unfair advantage to slave owners. The Republican party dominated elections until 1932, when the people were looking for more government intervention in light of the Great Depression. Republicans did not get back into the oval office until 1953 and did not control the House or Senate until the early 1990s. Nowadays, neither the Republicans or Democrats contain control of the houses for very

The federalists supported a central government with more power, but after the first few elections the party dissolved into the Whig party, which was against the Jacksonian democrats and wanted more government spending for things such as schools and roads. Besides those two parties, who had multiple beliefs, there were also many single-issue parties that had little, yet a noticeable, effect in our politics’ history. One of those was the Know-Nothing party, which took a stand against unregulated immigration. The Liberty party was another single-issue party that lasted from 1840 to 1848 and was anti-slavery. Most of its party members joined the Free-Soil party. In 1848, and until 1854, the Free-Soil party fought against the extension of slavery in the new Western territories. When it disbanded, many members joined the new Republican party. Lastly, an example of a party that later joined the likes of one of the two major parties was the Populist party, which was organized in 1892. The party's platform, “included a demand for free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold; a graduated income tax; a postal savings bank; the direct election of senators; government ownership of telegraph, telephone, and railroad lines; secret ballots; initiative and referendum; eight-hour work days for government employees; immigration restrictions; and a single term for the