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The '''Third Party System''' refers, generally, to [[American]] politics from about 1854 until 1896, when more than just the two major parties exerted influence over national elections in the [[United States]]. The Third Party System was dominated by the newly created [[Republican Party]], which claimed success in saving the Union, abolishing [[slavery]], enfranchising the freedmen, and adopting many of the [[Whig Party]]'s progressive, or modern programs such as national banks, railroads, high [[tariffs]], homesteads and aid to the land grant colleges. It includes the politics of what is now called the [[Gilded Age]]. The [[Democratic Party]] was very competitive in most states, but won the presidency only in 1856, 1884 and 1892. In 1892, the [[Populist Party]] made a remarkable showing, winning 22 [[Electoral College]] votes and one million popular votes, in that time a high percentage of the total vote.
In terms of voter coalitions, the main groups involved ethnic/racial, and religious affiliations, who closely tracked moral issues in [[politics]]. The South was split between the white [[Democrats]] and the black [[Republicans]]. Liturgical voters, [[Catholics]], [[Episcopalians]], German [[Lutherans]] supported the Democrats. Irish Catholics emerged as a major leadership group in the Democratic party. In the North, evangelical [[Protestants]], [[Methodists]] and [[Congregationalists]] & Lutherans, dominated the [[GOP]] and supported it to be more strongly [[anti-slavery]] and anti-[[liquor]]. Class differences also existed, with the middle class Republican and the working class Democratic. Farmers split usually split their votes.
A central issue centered on the right to vote of [[Freedmen]] (former [[slaves]]), which they had from 1867 to about 1890, when they were disfranchised by the Democrats once again.
==References==
*<ref>http://www.svcc.edu/academics/classes/edlemap/gov163/Chapter9PoliticalParties/</ref>Sauk Valley College
*<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2007/10/more_on_third_parties.html</ref> RealClearPolitics
*<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/592400/third-party</ref> Encyclopedia Britannica
[[Category: United States]]
[[Category: Politics]]
In terms of voter coalitions, the main groups involved ethnic/racial, and religious affiliations, who closely tracked moral issues in [[politics]]. The South was split between the white [[Democrats]] and the black [[Republicans]]. Liturgical voters, [[Catholics]], [[Episcopalians]], German [[Lutherans]] supported the Democrats. Irish Catholics emerged as a major leadership group in the Democratic party. In the North, evangelical [[Protestants]], [[Methodists]] and [[Congregationalists]] & Lutherans, dominated the [[GOP]] and supported it to be more strongly [[anti-slavery]] and anti-[[liquor]]. Class differences also existed, with the middle class Republican and the working class Democratic. Farmers split usually split their votes.
A central issue centered on the right to vote of [[Freedmen]] (former [[slaves]]), which they had from 1867 to about 1890, when they were disfranchised by the Democrats once again.
==References==
*<ref>http://www.svcc.edu/academics/classes/edlemap/gov163/Chapter9PoliticalParties/</ref>Sauk Valley College
*<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2007/10/more_on_third_parties.html</ref> RealClearPolitics
*<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/592400/third-party</ref> Encyclopedia Britannica
[[Category: United States]]
[[Category: Politics]]