Timeline of US Political Parties

Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties 1789-1880:

Above chart, expanded to 1890:

Another set of timelines, covering up to 1930:

Kathleen Kowal's chart, covering up to 2012:

CREDITS:
Chart & Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz

[TheOneWhoMightBe]

The old chart is quite appealing. Plenty of information packed into it but not overwhelming. And much easier on the eyes that the newer charts which are just straight lines.

[Harleb-vrbz]

I showed this to my father who is a political scientist, Now he wants me to get him a poster of it for his office.

[thethreerailwayengines]

Quick correction: in 1872, saying the Liberal Republicans supported the Democrat candidate is misleading. The Liberal Republicans chose their own candidate, and the Democrats then chose to back HIM in order to avoid splitting the opposition to the Republican President Grant

[hamnchee]

Man I spidey sensed that ground news ad coming a mile away.

[Vonebor]

Love the gunshot sound effect when Alexander Hamilton's picture disappears and the separation of the French king's head on his exit. Editor had fun with this one! 😂

[isurrender]

That chart was up in my US history class in high school. I always spent a lot of time looking over at it when I was bored. It really helped teach me a lot about the history of political parties in America. Very nostalgic video for sure.

[PladArvion]

5:08 It's such a small detail, but I'm glad I saw it

[zarajday]

I love this map so much. At first, when I saw it, I thought it was just stylized with the snake-like lines twisting, but after a minute, I realized it was ordering the lines of who won the elections, and I think it is beautiful. Also, this map explained to me the era of good feelings in a way I actually understand, with all the lines converging than history class ever did.

[ruyfernandez]

It's so weir for me, as a non-American, to see right-wing in red and left-wing in blue.

[jeffbertjeffbertson]

Super interesting chart considering its age. Really like how it’s laid out

[gljames]

Alexander Hamilton wrote an article of confederation that explicitly described how parties were inevitable because there are always going to be interest groups. Unlike what George Washington wanted, Alexander knew it was inevitable and created the first party 17 years later. We should've recognized that parties would exist, but instead pushed to reduce their power using Ranked Choice Voting and Mixed Memeber Proportional Districting, but those concepts didn't exist at the time as political theory for democracy/republics was not as advanced as it is now.

[DougGrinbergs]

Omigosh, this is crazy cool history stuff. Thanks!👍

[JD_Wilcox]

That is a cool chart. They crammed in so much information into it. I'd love to see a version that continued on to today.

[heathab]

This chart is simply beautiful, id love so see it continued

[billusher]

Please make a charts for the development of the sciences

[unionofsa]

Note that other nations view left and right wing differently, in the UK a Liberal and a Conservative are both on the right and a Socialist is on the left.
In the US the term Liberal is used for people on the left.

[Dorgpoop]

You could argue that the American Tories survived in Canada, and eventually became the Conservative party of Canada.

[shehannanayakkara]

Kinda cool that they predicted the future colour of the Republicans being red (if I recall correctly, the association between the Republicans and red only became a thing after the 2000 election).

[TheRestedOne]

Such a shame that the Sparks format wasn't continued. That's got to be the most comprehensive summary of US politics I've seen.

[Hurlebatte]

If one goes back further they'll find the Whigs coming from the Parliamentarians. The Leveller faction of the Parliamentarians espoused things very similar to Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin.