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2. Identify five factors that influence a person's voting behavior and explain how these factors influence the behavior. You may include sociological factors, psychological factors or a combination of both.: 1. A Person's Characteristics
2. A Voter's Group Affiliations
3. Political Efficiacy
4. Income and Occupation
5. Gender Gap
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Alexander Hamilton: The first leader of the federalist party
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Democrats: A coalition of farmers, debtors, frontier pioneers, and slave holders. Weren't considered very wealthy
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Electorate: The people eligible to vote
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How did the election of 1932 affect the Democratic Party?: Made them the clear majority in American politics - focused on developing economic and social welfare programs to meet the needs of Southerners, small farmers, organized labor, and big-city political organizations
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Issues in the 1830s:: Mexico blocking any further U.S. colonists; the Nullification Crisis, slavery, and high tariffs
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Key Anti-Federalist Ideas:: Thought that Congress should dominate the new government; Strict construction of the provisions of the constitution
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Key Federalist Ideas:: Wanted to strengthen the national government; favored vigorous executive leadership
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Key Whig Ideas:: Supported high tariff and were opposed to tenets of the Jacksonian Democracy
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Major Changes that took place under the Jacksonian Democracy:: voting rights for all white males, a huge increase in the number of elected offices around the country, and spread of the soil system
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Ratification of the Constitution: led to the two parties in America
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Republicans: The only party to become a major party after being a 3rd party
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Sectionalism: Focus on the issues or interests of a certain region
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Short Answer:
1. What role do minor parties serve in political elections? How are they important despite the fact that they have never won a presidential election?: They serve as spoilers, idea starters; idea sharers. Minor party ideas are often adopted into the major parties after election
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Thomas Jefferson: The first leader of the Anti-federalist party
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Which party dominated the presidential elections during 1860-1932?: The Republican Party
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Whigs: Consisted of Jackson's Loyalists, Democrats, a loose coalition of Eastern bankers, merchants, large plantation owners, and industrialists
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Who supported the Republicans after the Civil War?: Business and financial interests, farmers, laborers, and newly freed African Americans
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Why did the Democrats monopolize Southern politics for approximately 100 years after the Civil War?: There was a southern resentment in the republicans' role in the defeat of the south
