Democrat/Whig Party Symbol Assignment

A Block: Due Wednesday, 3/25
G Blcok: Due Tuesday, 3/24

Using the following information about the 2 political parties, along with any knowledge from the text (pg 251-252), create a symbol that represents what each of the 2 major parties stands for.


Democrats 

•Role of the government should be limited

•Government should remove obstacles to opportunity

•Encouraged westward expansion

•Attack on the corrupt and privileged – fearful of giving too much power to banks and corporations

•Appealed to: smaller merchants and workers in East, Southern planters suspicious of growth, those who favored agrarian economy 

Whigs

•Favored expanding power of Federal Govt.

•Encouraged industrial development

•Cautious about Westward expansion

•Though America Should rise as an economic power through industry.

•Appealed to: New England wealthy manufacturers, wealthy Southern planters, Rising Western commercial class