First Party System
Phase in U.S. electoral politics (1792–1824)
First Party System
The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1828. 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 time the Republican Party (which is distinct from the modern Republican Party). The Federalists were dominant until 1800, while the Republicans were dominant after 1800. Both parties originated in national politics, but soon expanded their efforts to gain supporters and voters in every state. The Federalists, successors to the Pro-Administration faction that favored Washington's policies, appealed to the business community and had their base in the North, while the Republicans, like the Anti-Administration faction before them, relied on the planters and farmers within their base in the South and non-coastal...
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