Goals | Ensure equality • Prevent monopoly power • Promote individual rights • Support freedom of speech and assembly • Foster popular democracy • Create an equal society |
Founded | 1858 |
Ideology | left-wing populism • anti-aristocracy • pro-French Revolutionary ideas • pro-socialist ideas |
Rise to power | After the Industrial War of the 1880s |
Government view | Supports strong centralized Federal government |
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Political history | Dominated American politics for over 100 years |
Views on regulation | Advocates for regulation of industry, agriculture, and commerce |