Federalists and Whigs

• Federalists and the Whigs in fact shared a common political ideology and represented many of the same interest groups.

• The Federalist Party was born in the 1790 by Alexander Hamilton.

• The federalists supported the idea of a strong government since the constitution was born.

• They also had the idea of “loose interpretation”

• The federalist believed that because it would take hundreds of years to write

down everything the U.S. government could do, the elastic clause was created.

• The federalists wanted to have a bank so that the government could run properly and smoothly.

• The Federalists were largely wealthy, aristocratic men, originating from the New England area

• The first two presidents of the United States belonged to the Federalist

Party.

• During the war of 1812, the Federalists had lost their control of the American politics and had slowly started to decline in numbers and in popularity.

• The Whig party surfaced forty years after the Federalist Party had died out. The two separate parties held many of the same ideals.

• The Whig party was formed by the members of him National Republican Party and people who