1 ST Party System (1790s 1815) Federalists Democrat-Republicans Led by Alexander Hamilton Led by Thomas Jefferson Jacksonian Democrats Stalin Style Communism Led by Andrew Jackson Democrats Socialism Pro-slavery party that left the Union Democrats Tainted as the Party responsible for Civil War 2 nd Party System (1828 1854) National Republicans (Whigs) Free Market Led by John Quincy Adams 3rd Party System (1854 1896) Republicans Abe s party that freed the slaves in 1865 4th Party System (1896 1932) Government more hands (interventionist) on for cultural/moral issues than in past still hands off economically!!!!! Republicans DOMINATED THE DEMOCRATS
US Political Spectrum 1920s thru 1960s 5 th Party System 1 st New Deal 0% government economic Free Market Stalin Style Communism Socialism FDR was adhering to the economic arguments of John Maynard Keynes. Safety net (prevent recessions from becoming depressions) AKA welfare state is not completely right because of his last ditch attempts to inject taxpayer funds to the banks.
US Political Spectrum 1920s thru 1960s inc. 2 nd New Deal and Critics New Deal Critics Huey Long, Woody Guthrie 1 st New Deal 2 nd New Deal 1932-1935 Free Market 0% government economic Stalin Style Communism Socialism FDR was adhering to the economic arguments of John Maynard Keynes. Safety net (prevent recessions from becoming depressions) AKA welfare state is not completely right because of his last ditch attempts to inject taxpayer funds to the banks.
US Political Spectrum 1920s thru 1930s inc. dictators 2 nd New Deal 1932-1935 1 st New Deal 0% government Involvement Free Market Stalin Style Socialism Communism Dem. Comm. Fascism Italy, Nazi Germany FDR was adhering to the economic arguments of John Maynard Keynes. Safety net (prevent recessions from becoming depressions) AKA welfare state is not completely right because of his late attempts to inject taxpayer funds to the banks.
US Political Spectrum From Classical Liberal to Modern Liberal 1790s thru 1880s 1880s through WWI (1917ish) 1929 The ratification of the Constitution in June 1788 signaled the slow emergence of classical liberal thought This means that, by and large, most Americans believed in a laissez faire type of government (smaller, hands off i.e. government should not interfere in the business world and in peoples Following the Civil War: 1870s and after: Big Business rose, leading to wealthy powerful corporations, low paid (often immigrant) factory workers that lived in crowded tenements in cities, and farmers who were exploited by railroads and bankers 1880s: Populist Era farmers who began to advocate for greater government in business i.e. regulating certain business, government control over certain industries. Populists were dismissed as looney uneducated folk (non-elite) 1890s Social Gospel movement, and then the Progressives at the turn of the century, reacting to what they argued were the tremendous negatives produced by capitalism dominated by big businesses, and began to argue that government should regulate the business world to soften capitalism (that the older hands off model no longer worked because businesses had become so big and powerful a reality that was not around prior to the Civil War) Great Depression laissez faire hands off capitalism had collapsed 1932 Progressives resurrect as FDR Democrats, and behind his New Deal, argue that government needs a bigger role in the business world So modern Democrats, aka modern liberals, claim to be an
US Political Spectrum 1920s thru Post WWII 2 nd New Deal 1932-1935 1 st New Deal 1950s New Conservatives (OK to legislate moral issues) Military Industrial Complex (post WWII) 0% government Involvement Free Market Fascism Italy, Nazi Germany Republicans (and most Democrats began to support the military state as a solution to the capitalist rollercoaster. Democrats and most Republicans supported both the welfare state and the military state meaning that most Republicans accepted, and some adamantly supported bigger government/new Deal thinking until Ronald Reagan in 1980 but that has since changed drastically that s what is meant someone says that politics has moved to the right