CLEP American Government
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A splinter party formed by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and his followers after the Republican's party's leaders refused to grant the presidential nomination to Roosevelt in 1912 splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win.
A third party whose platform was the opposition to large institutions run by and for the wealthy that seemed to increasingly control the nation: banks, railroads, corporations, and corrupt political machines.
Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers, laborers, and newly-freed blacks. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.