Second-Party System in the 1800s

Differences between political parties, during around the time James Monroe was president in 1817, was not a problem. The Era of Good Feelings, as it was called, was a time when there was a single-party system. This was so, because the Federalist party was no longer a national party and the only national party that remained was the Democratic Republicans. The Democratic-Republicans diverged into two different parties, the Democrats and the Whigs. The cause of this split into a second-party system lied with opposition toward Jackson because of the inevitable lack of representation only a single party could provide.
The Whigs grew because of the hostility they shared toward Jackson because of his controversial views and actions. Jackson was against the national Bank, he viewed it as giving an unfair advantage to some businesses as it would loan money to those businesses. …