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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Second Party System
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Second Party System
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Second Party System
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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Second Party System

By Trainor and Sean

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Release dateSep 28, 2018
ISBN9781535862264
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    Gale Researcher Guide for: The Second Party System

    Sean Trainor

    University of Florida

    Department of History

    Sean Trainor is a historian of nineteenth-century US social and cultural history, with a specialization in the history of gender and the body. He has a PhD in history and women’s studies from Pennsylvania State University (2015) and teaches history and humanities at Santa Fe College, University of Florida, and Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus.

    The first American party system, in which Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republicans opposed Alexander Hamilton and his Federalists, arose soon after the launch of the new government under the Constitution. This rivalry effectively disappeared during the War of 1812, as Federalists faded. For the next decade or so, Democratic-Republicans dominated national politics, but in the 1820s, the alliance splintered. The National Republican faction, led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, favored tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank. The Adams-Clay alliance in the wake of the disputed election of 1824 gave impetus to the newly formed Democratic Party, led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Their

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