Political+Parties


 * Federalists
 * Republicans
 * Democrats
 * States' Rights Party- A party of southern conservatives who defected from Democratic party in 1948 b/c they were angered by Truman's proposed Civil Rights Bill and nominated Governor Strom Thurmond of S. Carolina as the presidential nominee.
 * New Left wing Progressive Party??- Established in 1948 by Democratic defectors w/ Henry A. Wallace as its candidate. They ran against Truman b/c they disliked Truman's administration's slow+ineffective domestic policies+__resented president's confrontational stance toward the Soviet Union.__
 * Americans for Democratic Action- A coalition of Democratic liberals who were unwilling to leave the Democratic party during the election of 1948&attempted to entice popular war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower to run but could not convince him.
 * Populists
 * federalist
 * communist
 * socialist
 * whigs/tories-present during beginning of u.s.
 * farmer's assocciation
 * nationalist
 * conservative republicans- limited gov.
 * Democratic-Republicans
 * Know-Nothings-Nativists 1840s+1850s b/c of German+Irish Catholic immigration.