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  • _______________ started the Democratic-Republican Party
    Thomas Jefferson
  • The whig party was present 1834-1854 and favored _______________
    internal improvements
  • A series of statements expressing a party's principles, beliefs, and positions on election issues
    Platform
  • National Republican party favored a strong central government and was present from ________
    1825-1834
  • Whig party wants to avoid controversial topic of __________
    slavery
  • Which party was present in 1790s-1820 and favored a strong central government
    Federalist
  • Each party has a _________ that raises money and organizes conventions
    National committee
  • The demeocratic-republican party favored ____________ the power of a national government to protect people's rights
    limiting
  • The "Framers" feared that parties would ___________________ that would weaken the nation
    lead to divisions
  • The US is technically a __________________
    multi-party system
  • A politically independent can vote either way. True or False
    True
  • The National Republican party is replaced by the ____________
    whig party
  • By organizing into political parties, people have __________ to infuence government than if they acted alone
    More power
  • The Democratic-Republican party was present 1790s-1828 and favored a _____________
    state over national government
  • _______________ fades and is replaced by the Whig Party
    National Republican Party
  • The US is a multi-party system because you can be memer of the democratic, republican, third, or independent party. True or False
    True
  • What's an example of the largest Third Party?
    Libertarian
  • Political parties fight to gain political power by having ____________
    candidates elected to office
  • A system of government in wich two political parties compete for power
    Two party system
  • Organized group of people who share similar political views and work to influence the government in support of their views
    Political party
  • ________________ started the federalist party
    Alexander Hamilton
  • Andrew Jackson supporters called themselves the ________________
    Democratic Party
  • Political parties exist at every level of government, from the national level to your very own ____________
    neighborhood
  • In 1828, the ___________________ party split
    Democratic-Republican
  • Which party was present 1854-present and opposed slavery
    Republican
  • What are other jobs of political parties? (5)
    support candidates, influence laws and policy, unite levels of government, create balance, influence voters
  • Which party was present from 1834-present and supported common people
    Democratic
  • A political party that challenges the two major parties
    Third party
  • At the national convention, delegates choose the party’s candidates for ____________
    President and vice-president
  • Delegates are chosen through ____________ or in a _______
    Primary elections; caucus
  • Representatives from each state who run a political party
    National committee
  • The federalist party favored a __________ national government that would protect people's rights
    strong
  • Citizens can identify differences in parties by ________________ each party writes when it nominates a __________ candidate
    reading the platform; presidential
  • Many of the framers who wrote the constitution were ____________________
    Not in favor of political parties
  • Democratic-Republican party grew _____________, the Federalist Party lost support and ___________
    stronger; faded away
  • Those who opposed Jackson called themselves the _________________
    National Republicans
  • People running for political office
    Candidates
  • In the late 1790s, the groups had formed because _________________
    people had ideas about what the government should do
  • Political views are a person's ideas about ___________________________
    how the government should run and how the issues facing our country should be solved
  • The national committee __________ money for presidential elections and campaigns and __________ the party’s national convention
    Raises; organizes
  • In 1854, people who _________________ began the new Republican party
    opposed slavery
  • Democrats wanted to allow people in each territory to _____________ the issue of slavery
    decide for themselves
  • Since the late 1850s the _____________________ have remained the major parties of our nation
    Republicans and Democrats
  • A meeting of political party members to conduct party business
    Caucus
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