Political+Parties

Federalists - Group of people that believed in a strong national/federal government as well as the Constitution.

Republicans - Group of people who opposed the Constitution and supported strong state governments.

Whigs - Group of people that thought Jackson's acts were tyrannical

Democrats - Group of people that supported Andrew Jackson.

Know-Nothings - Group of people who became the American party - won control of the American government; were a nativist party.

Free-Soil Party - Group of people who did not support slavery because of reasons other than moral grounds.

Republicans - Group of people made from the combined Anti-Nebraska Democrat Party and the Anti-Nebraska Whigs Party in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

People's Party (Populists) - Group of people (mostly farmers & representing them) who's goal was to increase currency as well as to make railroads publicly (state/government) owned.

Liberal Republican Party - Group of Republicans who opposed the corrupt President Ulysses S. Grant.

National Greenback Party - Group of people who supported paper currency during the Civil War.

Communist Party - Group of people who believed that everyone should be equal financially/economically and the government runs/regulates the economy.