APUSH – The Role of Political Parties in Elections

1.  Using your textbook or any other resources you choose, chart the changes that occurred in the United States in the early 19th century affecting Suffrage, from the demise of the Federalists to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828.

Use the two website below to access secondary sources on two of the most highly contested elections in our nation’s history.  Then answer the questions that accompany below.

Thomas Jefferson – Campaigns and Elections – The Election of 1796

Adams v Jackson – The Election of 1824

2.  Analyze the role political parties played in each of these two elections.

3.  Analyze how and whether the role of parties changed between these two elections.

 

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