The 7 Ages of America: The Age of Lincoln

In the first video, we saw that the Federalists were an Eastern party, an elitist party that supported the Alien and Sedition Acts, whose press demonized Thomas Jefferson and whose base of support was the business community, professionals and the upper class and middle class.

In the second video, we saw the Whig Party was also an Eastern party, a corrupt and elitist party, whose press demonized Andrew Jackson whom he blamed for the early death of his wife and whose base of support was the business community, professionals and the upper class and middle class.

In this video, we see that the Republican Party was an Eastern party, a corrupt and elitist party, whose press demonized the Southern “Slave Power” and whose base of support was the business community, railroad corporations, professionals, utopian social reformers and the Northern evangelical upper class and middle class.