Question

1) Select the best answer.

What was a consequence of the first contested presidential election resulting in a President from the Federalist Party and a vice president from the Democratic-Republican Party?

Fewer Americans voted in the next election because of the division.

The two parties began a rivalry that still exists today.

Several third parties formed to take advantage of the division.

The Twelfth Amendment was passed, providing separate balloting for the offices of President and vice president.

2) Select the best answer.

What led to the creation of the second party system?

The Democratic-Republican Party split into rival factions: the National Republicans, led by John Quincy Adams, and the Democratic-Republicans, led by Andrew Jackson.

John Quincy Adams ousted Andrew Jackson as head of the Democratic Party.

The Federalists transformed into the Whig Party.

New legislation outlawing congressional caucuses led to a new system.

3) Select the best answer.

What is the legacy of the second party system?

Today’s Republican and Democratic parties formed during this period.

The system was responsible for the abolition of slavery.

It changed the way that senators are elected.

A system was created by which public officials could be recruited while allowing the public to influence their policy judgments.

4) Select the best answer.

Why have third parties emerged throughout the different periods in American history?

to become a major national party competing as an equal with the two major political parties

to nominate candidates who might spoil the major parties’ chances of election

to gain influence in the Senate and House of Representatives

to bring attention to important issues that the major political parties would not address

5) Select the best answer.

The GOP—Republican Party—is an abbreviation for _____.

Great On People

Good On Progress

Grand Old Party

General Old Process

6) Select THREE ways early party systems contributed to the evolution of political parties that exist today.

They forced the populace to vote for different candidates.

They held elected officials accountable to their constituents.

They brought in revenue to the government through poll taxes.

They allowed differences of opinion over various issues to be resolved.

They created rules for conventions that are still exactly followed today.

They defined the role of government in setting public policy.

Answer 1

1) The Twelfth Amendment was passed, providing separate balloting for the offices of President and vice president.

2) The Democratic-Republican Party split into rival factions: the National Republicans, led by John Quincy Adams, and the Democratic-Republicans, led by Andrew Jackson.

3) A system was created by which public officials could be recruited while allowing the public to influence their policy judgments.

4) to bring attention to important issues that the major political parties would not address

5) Grand Old Party

6) - They held elected officials accountable to their constituents.
- They allowed differences of opinion over various issues to be resolved.
- They defined the role of government in setting public policy.