Who were the first two major political parties in the us?

Answer 1

The political situation in 1860 in the US was complicated. The main "national party" the Democratic Party was split three ways. This helped the united Republican Party under President Lincoln to win the US presidency. The Democrats later united and by the end of the US Civil War the two major national parties were the Republicans and the Democrats.

Answer 2

There were more than just two dominant political parties in the 19th Century. Towards the beginning of the century we see the Federalists and the Republican Parties (this is not the Republican Party we know today nor that of Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Campaigns). After the Hartford Convention in 1815 the Federalist Party began to take a "nose dive" and during the Presidency of James Monroe there was really only one major political party functioning, the Republicans. After the election of 1828 the Democratic party began to grow through the leadership of Andrew Jackson and became the dominant party from c. 1830-1836 with the Republican party beginning to see a split. Soon the Republican party also fell out and the Whig party was created as a result. Until Abraham Lincoln ran for President in 1860 the Democratic and Whig parties were the major Political parties of the United States with a few other "third" parties like the Anti-Masonry, Anti-Catholic and other parties. After the Civil War the two main parties that became most evident are the two that we see active in US politics today.

Answer 3

I think democrats and republicans.