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Constitutional Rights Foundation: How Political Parties Began ActivityConstitutional Rights Foundation: How Political Parties Began Activity
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Constitutional Rights Foundation
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Constitutional Rights Foundation: How Political Parties Began

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Activity in which students examine the history of political parties in America and evaluate the role they play and reasons they emerged. Questions for discussion and small group work to compare the late 1700s visions of Republicans and Federalists.

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political party history, republican and federalist visions, growth of political parties

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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