Recent Event Highlights: Another Third Party, Third Party Victory, The Democrats and the Republicans, and 8 more...
Created by saunders6 on Feb 12, 2009
Last updated: 02/16/09 at 05:32 PM
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Billionaire Ross Perot joins the presidential race and uses his money to gain votes. He gets 19 percent of the popular vote, making him the most successful third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt.
George Wallace leaves the Democratic Party and creates the American Independent Party.
Two groups within the Democratic Party form their own parties: the left-wing Democrats form the Progressive Party, and the Southern Democrats form the segregationist States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats.
Theodore Roosevelt creates the Bull Moose Party, which creates four parties: the progressive Democrats, the conservative Democrats, the stand-pat Republicans, and the progressive Republicans.
Farmers who don't like the major parties form the Peolpe's Party, otherwise known as the Populists.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties are accused of being bribed. Small parties take this as a chance to become a popular party.
Abraham Linoln wins the presidential election, which establishes the Republican party as one of the two main parties of America.
The Federalists party ends, and the Democratic Republicans split into the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats follow Andrew Jackson, and the Republicans support senator Henry Clay.
The Federalists party ends, and the Democratic Republicans split into the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats follow Andrew Jackson, and the Republicans support senator Henry Clay.
The first two parties are created, the Democratic Republicans who follow Thomas Jefferson, and the Federalists who support Alexander Hamilton.
The United States Constitution is made in Philadelphia,but it does not mention anything about political parties.
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