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  2. First Party System - Wikipedia

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    The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. [1] It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the ...

  3. Political eras of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first and most significant Second Party System realignment was a realignment of the differing factions of the Democratic-Republican Party of the more slave sparse Southern areas and the non-coastal Northern counties, particularly those factions that voted for Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and William H. Crawford, into the new Jacksonian ...

  4. History of the United States (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    The 1790s were highly contentious. The First Party System emerged in the contest between Hamilton and his Federalist party, and Thomas Jefferson and his Republican party. Washington and Hamilton were building a strong national government, with a broad financial base, and the support of merchants and financiers throughout the country.

  5. Jeffersonian democracy - Wikipedia

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    The spirit of Jeffersonian democracy dominated American politics from 1800 to 1824, the First Party System, under Jefferson and succeeding presidents James Madison and James Monroe. The Jeffersonians proved much more successful than the Federalists in building state and local party organizations that united various factions. [49]

  6. Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Political scientists and historians have divided the development of America's two-party system into six or so eras or "party systems", [10] starting with the Federalist Party, which supported the ratification of the Constitution, and the Anti-Administration party (Anti-Federalists), which opposed a powerful central government and later became ...

  7. Jay Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The treaty was one of the major catalysts for the advent of the First Party System in the United States by further dividing the two major political factions within the country. The Federalist Party, led by Hamilton, supported the treaty. On the contrary, the Democratic-Republican Party, led by Jefferson and Madison, opposed it. Jefferson and ...

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  9. Federalist Era - Wikipedia

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    The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (1978) online; Chambers, William Nisbet, ed. The First Party System (1972)* Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Hickey, Donald R. "The Quasi-War: America's First Limited War, 1798-1801."