1. How many party systems have been active in America since the United States was founded? 2. How many political parties were campaigning for their candidates during the first election under the new Constitution, in other words, in 1788?

3. What were America’s first two political parties?

4. Party divisions weren’t prominent from 1815 to 1824. What is this period of time sometimes called?

5. How did the new political party known as the Whigs first develop?

6. Where did the modern Democratic Party come from?

7. What features of politics still seen today were introduced into the Democratic Party in the early 1800s?

8. What did the election of William Henry Harrison suggest was an important aspect of a presidential candidate?

9. What issue more or less destroyed the Whig party?

10. Starting with which president were all elections to follow basically ones between Democrats and Republicans?

11. What was one of the Republican party’s earliest rallying cries?

12. Which two groups were big supporters of the Democrats in the late 1800s?

13. What new party emerged in the 1880s, and certainly by 1892?

14. How did this new party end?

15. What is generally true of third parties in American politics?

16. What issue did the Socialist party help to make prevalent in the early part of the 20th century?

17. When did the fifth party system of American politics begin?

18. What group had voted Republican for decades but began to shift toward the Democrats under FDR?

19. What is the main shift involved in the sixth party system, starting around 1968?

20. In the current party system, what groups still reliably support the Democrats?