THE AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEM
1789-1797 George Washington (Federalist) 1797-1801 John Adams (Federalist) 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson (Democrat-Republican) 1809-1817 James Madison (Democrat-Republican) 1817-1825 James Monroe (Democrat-Republican) 1825-1829 John Quincy Adams (Democrat-Republican) 1829-1837 Andrew Jackson (Democrat) 1837-1841 Martin Van Buren (Democrat) 1841 (Mar- Apr) William Henry Harrison (Whig) 1841-1845 John Tyler (Whig) 1845-1849 James Polk (Democrat) 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor (Whig) 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore (Whig) 1853-1857 Franklin Pierce (Democrat) 1857-1861 James Buchanan (Democrat) 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln (Republican) 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson (Democrat)
1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) 1877-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) 1881 (Mar-Sept) James Garfield (Republican) 1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur (Republican) 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland (Democrat) 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison (Republican) 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland (Democrat) 1897-1901 William McKinley (Republican) 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) 1909-1913 William Howard Taft (Republican) 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) 1921-1923 Warren G. Harding (Republican) 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge (Republican) 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover (Republican) 1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) 1945-1953 Harry S Truman (Democrat) 1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) 1961-1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat) 1963-1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat) 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon (Republican) 1974-1977 Gerald R. Ford (Republican) 1977-1981 Jimmy Carter (Democrat) 1981-1989 Ronald Reagan (Republican) 1989-1993 George H. W. Bush (Republican) 1993-2001 Bill Clinton (Democrat) 2001-2009 George W. Bush (Republican) 2009-2017 Barack Obama (Democrat)
What are the two major parties in Great Britain?
Conservative Labor
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Executive branch of the American government; as in "the Clinton administration." The container into which votes are put. A person who desires a position in a political office. People of a region who elected a representative; the representative is answerable to these people. Also, the region itself. A country with a one-party leader who is in complete control; usually one who is unfair. A type of person who will staunchly campaign or vote for only one political party. A group of people organized with a governmental agenda in mind. A political plan of action. Pertaining to Canada; regional or territorial. Democracy where the people elect representatives to act as their agents in making laws.
The third U.S. President was
Thomas jefferson
Which statement below is characteristic of political parties in the United States?
We have a two-party system
What is a coalition?
a temporary alliance of political parties.
What are the two major parties in Canada?
conservative and liberal
What party do the large cities tend to support?
democrat
Which political party controlled the South from 1861 to the early 1960s?
democrat
democratic republican
donkey elephant
Dictatorships have been most common in communist and ______ countries.
fascist
Many times a political party is accused of ____________________ if it appears they put their party's agenda ahead of the good of the people.
partisan politics
Third parties play a highly important role in the:
strengthening the two major parties
