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AP U.S. Government 2.3 Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media. Democrats and Whigs competed in the what?

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brought to you by the wig's a party for to

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pay wearers Yeah alright democrats and wigs competed in the

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what we'd spelled h there All right well every so

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often a superbowl of political change sweeps the nation switching

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the teams mid game and stirring the party system pot

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did democrats and wigs compete in a the first party

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system Will the first party system which came into place

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once president washington retired pitted the federalist against the democratic

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republicans and involved all kinds of disagreements about how to

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get the american party started So by george it's not

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a where democrats and wigs at odds in see the

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third party system well turns out the best things don't

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always come in threes since the third party system featured

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the dissolution and re formation of all political parties over

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the issue of slavery So we convince cia's well did

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democrats and wigs draw blood during de the fourth party

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system with a fourth party system actually featured democrats and

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republicans with democrats gaining support from immigrant communities and republicans

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emphasizing the power of big business What about e the

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fifth party system while the fifth party system which most

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political scientists still believed to be in existence today emerged

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from fdr coalition under the new deal which welcomed groups

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as disparate as rural farmers and urban intellectuals into the

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arms of the democratic party So if e made sure

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that everyone's voice was heard that means democrats and wigs

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competed in b the second party system Democrats growing out

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of the old democratic republican party were led by andrew

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jackson and favorite small national government wigs centered in the

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northeast one of the government to be more involved in

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economic development So option b is the correct answer The

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wigs did manage to get several politicians elected as president

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We see you william henry harrison But with the civil

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war on the horizon they found themselves dealing with all 00:02:02.031 --> [endTime] kinds of split ends

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