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| He declared in his "Farewell Address that "the spirit of party" was the "worst enemy". |
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| A group organized to nominate candidates, to try to win political power through elections, and to promote ideas about public policies. |
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| A _______ is an organzied group of like minded individuals that hold and represent the same ideological platform as a whole. |
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| The ____ of the late 1800s and early 1900s, which promoted party registration and the practice of nominating candidates in primary elections, strengthened the case for including a citizen base in a definition of American parties. |
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| What are the 3 interacting parts of major American parties? |
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1. Party Organization
2. Party in Government
3. Party in the Electorate |
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| This interacting part of major American parties includes party leaders and the activists who work for party causes and candidates. |
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| This interacting part of major American parties is composed of the men and women who run for and hold public office on the party's label |
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| This interacting part of major American parties are those citizens who express an attachment to the party |
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| Political Parties in every democracy engage in three sets of activities to at least some degree. What are they? |
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1. They select candidates and contest elections
2. They try to educate citizens about issues important to the party
3. They work to influence government to provide certain policies and other benefits |
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| How do these parties affect American politics? |
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1. Parties help people make sense of the complexities of politics.
2. American parties hlep combine and organize political power.
3. The parties dominate the recruitment of political leaders.
4. The parties help unitfy a divided American political system. |
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| How do parties differ from other Political Groups? |
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1. Parties are paramount, very important, in Elections
2. They have a Full-time Commitment to Political Activity
3. Parties mobilize large Numbers
4. They Endure, or have an impressive life-span.
5. They Serve as Political Symbols or a social identity |
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| The world's first political parties developed in ________. |
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| The dominant group that came to be called Federalists was led by the ambitious young treasury secretay, ___________, they championed centralized (federal government) control over the econonomy, a central banking system, and high tariffs to protect fledgling American industries. |
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| The opposition to the Federalist rallied around _______ and _______ who wanted to uphold the states' rights against national government interference. |
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1. Thomas Jefferson
2. James Madison |
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| The Democratic-Republicans dominated American politics so thouroughly by the time of James Monroe's election in 1816 tht the absence of party and political conflict was called _____________ |
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| The "Era of Good Feelings." |
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| The most obvious change in the 1820s was the emergence of _______ that has lasted to this day and that accompanied a shift of power within the parties. |
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| The presidential election process |
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| The Democractic-Republicans had developed factions that chose divorce rather than ___________. |
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| Andrew Jackson led th frontier and agrarian wing of the Democratic-Republicans into what is now called the _______________. |
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| An old English term referrin to those who opposed the dominance of the king. |
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| The ________, another faction of hte old Democractic-Republicans who had earlier promoted Adams for president, merged with the Whigs. |
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| By the 1840s, the ____ and the ____ were established in the first truly national party system and were competitive in all the states. |
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| The Whigs and The Democrats |
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| Was it the Whigs or the Democrats that were particularly divided and led to a collapse? |
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| The ___ had formed mainly to demand the abolition of slavery but then adopted the WHigs' commitment to protect American businesses with high tariffs and to levy high taxes in order to subsidize industrial development ---roads, railroads, and settlement of the frontier. |
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| The period of the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s was the ____ of the American parties. |
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| What did the 17th Amendment do? |
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| It said that U.S. senators came to be elected directly by the voters rather than by the state legislatures. |
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| Parties are shaped by their ___- |
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| The two main rules of American politics, _____ and _____, affect the parties profoundly. |
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| Federalism and the Seperation of Powers |
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| A nations _____ is the set of political values and expectations held by its people. |
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