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Topics in American History Series: Political Parties Audiobook

Topics in American History Series: Political Parties Audiobook

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In the Beginning. The Constitution. Creates the division, separation of forces of government. There are no political parties at the initial presidential election The first political party. Thomas Jefferson opposes the financial plans of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party which advocates a strong central government and presidential power in the 1790s. Jefferson and Madison form the Anti-Federalist Party. Jefferson’s party may be the Democratic Republicans, wins the 1800 election after about Topics in American History Series: Political Parties that your Federalist Party declines and dies, departing one party. (8.33.00) = The 19th Century. The next American party system of the 1820s. Andrew Jackson thwarts the election of Quincy Adams. The Democratic Republicans end up being the Democrats and so are opposed by the Whigs. Both are national parties reflecting the developing sectionalism between the anti-slavery North as well as the pro-slavery South. Confrontation is normally prevented in the1830s and 1840s (14.12.00) = The Republican Party. The Mexican Battle qualified prospects to great American enlargement in the 1850s under Chief executive Polk. The Whigs decrease as well as the Republican Party emerges in 1854. It starts as a North anti-slavery party supported by Northern capitalists who would like Southern cotton today going to British mills, and high tariffs. Other elements include the homestead farmers towards the West who oppose slavery growth for racist motives, wanting to keep the Western white, the Unionists headed by Abraham Lincoln, the Nativists who are against foreigners, as well as the Abolitionists, the just ones using a moral issue. Lincoln is certainly elected in 1860 as well as the South secedes. (22.50.00) = The Civil War.. Lincoln is certainly reelected 1864, the battle ends April 1865, and Lincoln is usually assassinated. Reconstruction and the moral concern for the ex-slave. The 18th Amendment provides black men the vote. The Republicans dominate and remain in power mostly until the Melancholy 1930s. (28.53.00) = The 20th Century. The Intensifying Era.from 1900 to 1912 is a reform period, but email address details are less than the rhetoric. Progressive Era ends. Chief executive Taft’s reelection is definitely challenged by Theodore Roosevelt who forms the “Bull Moose” Progressive Party, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson wins a divided vote. The U.S. enters the war, ending the Intensifying Period. Eugene Debbs of the Socialist Party can be jailed for speaking out against U.S. entrance into World War One. The war ends. American disillusionment with the battle, Wilson’s rigid positions as well as the Senate’s refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles. (39.07.00) = Republican Warren Harding.is elected president. Both celebrations are similarly conventional. The KKK becomes nationally strong in the 1920s. Calvin Coolidge turns into chief executive when Harding dies, operates in 1928 and is elected. (42.02.00) = A strong Republican tide elects Herbert Hoover president against Catholic Al Smith in 1928. Town voters shifting to Democratic Party. Hoover is normally ineffective in Depression.. (44.46.00) = The Democrats elect Franklin Roosevelt in a landslide in 1932 after the Great Depression begins. Another landslide success for FDR in 1936. Republicans remain pro-business, anti-labor.

The 20th Century. (continuing). World Battle Two ends the fantastic Depression. American gunboat diplomacy and control of business interests in Latin America. The Spanish Civil War being a prelude to Globe War Two. The rise of Nazism in European countries and growing threat of fascist Japan in the Pacific. FDR breaks the two 2 term tabu and wins another term in 1940, is usually elected a 4th amount of time in 1944 and dies on Apr 1945 just before the end from the battle. (9.45.00) = President Harry Truman and the onset from the Cold War. Revival of the battle economy. Revival from the Republican Party which will take Congress in 1946, and goes by the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Action. Truman, against odds, is usually reelected in 1948, desegregates the armed forces. (12.21.00) = The Red Frighten. Truman starts the Crimson Scare which is made the the majority of from the Republicans. Crimson hysteria builds through the Korean War of 1950, the Russian atomic bomb, and the increased loss of China to the Communists. The rise and fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The Dixiecrat Party emerges in the South. Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party tries to stem the Crimson Scare. (15.30.00) = The 1950s. Delivery of the Modern Civil Privileges Movement. Dark brown versus Topeka, Kansas Bd. Of Ed., 1954. Pres. Eisenhower uses soldiers to enforce desegregation law. Pro-business decade. Republican Party keeps (16.46.00) = 1960s decade of great fervor, change and chaos. The Modern Women’s Privileges Movement. LBJ pushes civil rights movement, resisted with the Republicans, but Vietnam War diverts this effort. Assassination of Democratic applicant Robert Kennedy. Richard Nixon is usually elected Chief executive in 1968 on guarantee to end Vietnam Battle. The 1970s. Nixon is reelected in 1972 but quits in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal, is normally pardoned by Gerald Ford who replaces him. Democrat Jimmy Carter in the South is victorious in 1976. (28.00.00) = The Reagan 1980s. The Southern Strategy taps into Southern whites’ resistance to the civil right movement, makes the Republicans the dominant party of the South. Ronald Reagan is usually elected in 1980 and reelected in 1984. Conservatives right now connect religion to politics. Aggressive international plan. (37.28.00) = Contraction in federal government under Reagan. Reagan desires deregulation and limited authorities role generally but also wants strong federal government to intervene in moral issues. He espouses fiscal responsibility but hypes armed forces budget into large deficits. Republican George Bush is certainly elected President in1988. (41.41.00) = Right submit Democratic Party is component of rightward turn to Republican extremism. Southerner Costs Clinton is normally elected Chief executive in 1992. He passes moderate welfare reform, pursues various other moderate social policies, however his presidency can be violently attacked from time one. He is reelected in 1996. (43.58.004) = Current problems. The rightward turn provides shifted all political labels to the right in both celebrations. The next Iraq Battle and issues of truth and is situated, the expenses versus the goals. The future of the two celebrations and the role of older points of view is not clear.

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