Two-Party System Flashcards
1
Q
Which of the following political parties favored a strong federal government over the rights of individual states?
A
Federalists, Americans, Whigs, Republicans
2
Q
Alexander Hamilton and John Adams founded what political party?
A
Federalists
3
Q
The Know-Nothing Party formed around what political viewpoint?
A
Nativism/Racism/Anti-Immigrant
4
Q
By the 1830s, the Anti-Federalist Party had evolved into what party?
A
Democratic-Republican
5
Q
Thomas Jefferson was originally a supporter of what political party?
A
Anti-federalists
6
Q
Supporters of what two parties joined to form the Republican Party in the 1850s?
A
Whigs and Americans
