Political Parties Dbq

DBQ: How Political Parties Developed Political parties are organization of people which seek to achieve goals that can help certain people in a particular region. Political parties are developed because of the expansion of the United States. With more people with new ideas and political belief, people can now state their own opinion and can give the people a chance to be heard fairly and equally. Political parties has been around since the early and mid-1700s. Being one of the first political parties of the United States were the Whigs party. During the late 1700s to the early 1800s, two new political parties emerge, The Democratic-Republican and Federalist Party. One of the most recognized example of political party’s difference was …show more content…
Gerrymander is another reason for political difference in the United States. Gerrymander is manipulate the boundaries so that it will favor one party or class. Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry used this practice to benefits his political parties (Doc 8).People consider the practice of gerrymandering unfair because is undemocratic and unconstitutional. The Death of Alexander Hamilton is another example of mistrust between people due to political differences (Doc 6). The death of Hamilton show how the people can mistreat each other or in Hamilton case, killing them in order to get there point across. Election advertisement can also be a problem during the early days of the United States. Republicans clams about the Federalist is that they will enslave people, reduced federal taxation, and to diffused the poison of principle among them (Doc 4). Due to Political parties’ difference, People can speak their opinion to political problems by Newspaper articles and protects. But due to the sedition act of 1798, people could be severally punish by any false, injuries, or harmful writing against the government of the United States to bring about the hatred of good people(Doc 5).You can see how