2. Electoral Realignment and Critical Elections

3. Electoral Realignment Voting patterns are changed by some critical issue, event, or leader and remain changed for an extended period of time (perhaps many decades). A major shift in political divisions in the country.

4. Critical Elections An election in which a party is defeated so badly that it disappears or seems that it may disappear. Issues are often crosscutting, dividing both major parties.

5. Critical Elections 1860- Solid South 1896- Republican Ascendancy 1932- FDR Democrats

7. Republican Party Abraham Lincoln The Republican platform opposed slavery in the territories but upheld the right of slavery in the South.

11. Lasting Impact: Republican Party becomes a Major Party The Solid South Forms

13. Election of 1896

15. You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

16. Central Issues: Tariff, Depression, and the Gold Standard versus an Unlimited Coinage of Silver

20. Republican Party Ascendancy Lasting Impact: Republican Party Ascendancy

21. Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, circa 1906

23. Bolt the Ticket and Challenge Former PartyBolt the Ticket and Challenge Former Party

31. Election of 1932

33. Central Issues: Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression Begins

39. Lasting Impact: New Deal Coalition Labor Middle-Class Liberals Southerners (Solid South) European Immigrants Urban Factory Workers Catholics Ethnic Minorities Jews Farmers

42. A New Party System? A New System?: Candidate-centered politics and Dealignment

43. Dealignment