Federalists And Whigs

* Federalists and the Whigs in fact shared a common political ideology and represented many of the same interest groups.

* The Federalist Party was born in the 1790 by Alexander Hamilton.

* The federalists supported the idea of a strong government since the constitution was born.

* They also had the idea of "loose interpretation"

* The federalist believed that because it would take hundreds of years to write

down everything the U.S. government could do, the elastic clause was created.

* The federalists wanted to have a bank so that the government could run properly and smoothly.

* The Federalists were largely wealthy, aristocratic men, originating from the New England area

* The first two presidents of the United States belonged to the Federalist

Party.

* During the war of 1812, the Federalists had lost their control of the American politics and had slowly started to decline in numbers and in popularity.

* The Whig party surfaced forty years after the Federalist Party had died out. The two separate parties held many of the same ideals.

* The Whig party was formed by the members of him National Republican Party and people who were opposed to the Democratic Party and the Jacksonians.

* The Whigs were more into the "common man" than the Federalists Party.

* The Whig party was led by former National-Republicans Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

* They led their party in the fight against Jacksonian tyranny,