... . Changes in America's two-party system can be broken up into five distinct systems. Each system came to a change due to some great issue or economic policy that greatly divided the country. With each system came rapid and fundamental changes punctuated by party realignment. The first party system came during the ratification of the Constitution. One side ... the fifth party system. The Great Depression was caused by a stock market crash, causing the majority of working class people into poverty. Due to wide spread poverty in America, the nation blamed the controlling Republican party. S...

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