Slides

1. POL 303
Fall 2017

4.  Growing Autonomy of Parliaments
 Expansion of Suffrage
 Avenues to Political Power

8. Hamilton and
Jefferson both
served in
Washington’s
cabinet.
Despite being
influential to
our founding,
they had
different
conceptions
concerning
government.

10.  Membership restricted to political elite
 Quality of membership
 Internal development within legislatures
 Example: “King Caucus” in United States

12.  Presidential electors now popularly elected
 Property qualifications for voting dropped
 Voter turnout increased dramatically
 “King Caucus” replaced by nominating
conventions

13.  Replaced elite control of parties
 Challenges from non-governmental actors
 Quantity of membership
 “Cradle-to-Grave” organizations

15. The Whigs formed in opposition to
Jackson’s presidency and policies.

16. Racial issues
and sectional
strife in the
1850s divided
the North and
South in
America.
This resulted in theThird Party System—
and the birth of the Republican Party

18. The Whig party dissolved at this point. It could not survive the slavery
issue while also grappling with the anti-slavery Republican party.

21. Power Loom
Cotton Gin
2) Development
of Railroad
Industry
1) New
Inventions
Canning
process
helped goods
to stay fresher
longer.

26. CABLE CAR REFUSE COLLECTIONWAGON

28. Demand for low-skilled labor
attractive to varying immigrant
populations (German, Irish)

30. JIM PENDERGAST WILLIAM MAGEARTWEED

31.  Immigrants : Elections, Housing
 Middle Class: Small Businesses, City Services
 Big Business: City Contracts, Building Issues
 The Underworld: Organized Crime, Prostitution

32. INSTRUCTIONS:
In groups, design your own modern-day political machine.
How would you gain and maintain political power? Be sure and name your machine.
Think about ways that you would attract support for your machine.
Where would your machine be located? A big city or small town?
Would you target certain groups in society? If so, who?
How would you deal with political opponents?

34.  Center for NewYork politics
 Burr usedTammany in 1800
Election and electedVP
Aaron Burr

35. Tammany leaders met with
Democratic nominee
Jackson and agreed to
endorse him in exchange for
federal jobs.

41. 1932: FDR ELECTED
PRESIDENT
1933: LAGUARDIA ELECTED
NYC MAYOR

42. Works Progress
Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps

45.  Lasted from 1890s to 1920s
 Main Goal: Purification of Government
 Tried to counter political bosses/machines:
 Australian Ballot
 Direct Election of U.S. Senators (17th Amendment)
 Women’s Suffrage (19th Amendment)

46. Standard Oil
Company,
John D.
Rockefeller

47.  Death of Populist Movement
 Beginning of Republican Dominance
From L to R:
Presidents
Warren G.
Harding,
Calvin
Coolidge,
and Herbert
Hoover.

49. FDR’s decisive victory over Hoover led to the “New Deal,” which included social
welfare programs. These programs were continued under the Eisenhower
administration, and expanded on during the Kennedy and Johnson years.

51.  Changes Regarding Ideology and Party ID
 African-Americans: Republican  Democrat
 White Southerners: Democrat  Republican
 Rise of candidate-centered system
 Rise of Third-Party Candidates
 Split-TicketVoting and Divided Government
 Defined by intense partisanship and gridlock