Growth of Political Parites

Two hundred years ago, in the days of the American government, political

parties did not exist. Most of the political leaders felt that if there were political

parties the people of America would be divided into warring groups, undermine

our national unity, and weaken public support for the new Constitution. Yet our

officials did everything to stop the formations of them they could not stop politcal

parties. Many things led to the rise of political parties such as, different views

on taxes, different lifestyles, and different beliefs.

At first there were to different political parties, federalists and democratic

republicans. Thomas Jefferson became leader for the democratic republicans.

The opposing party were the federalist, there party leader was Alexander

Hamilton. In document one Jefferson talks about hamilton being a monarchist,

and in support of monarchy. There are many of these instances where each

party is bashing each other. In document two Alexander Hamilton is badly

bashing Thomas Jefferson calling his views and the views of his party unsound

and dangerous.

Jefferson was a Virginian farmer so he had a close ear to the people.

When