The two political parties that were formed in the United States while Washington was president were the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party.
Explanation:
The American bipartisanship was born in the first years of independent life of the nation under the influence of the events associated with the French Revolution, during the presidency of George Washington. The international crisis provoked by the events in Europe caught the United States between the two main fighting nations: France and Great Britain. The young and still vulnerable American republic was threatened by a conflict that was not its responsibility and could not control.
In this context, the struggle between two political groups led to the development of the first American political parties: the Federalist Party and the Republican Party. The federalists were led by Alexander Hamilton and identified with the interests of the country's most urban and commercial region, the Northeast. These proposed the development of the United States as a manufacturing and commercial country, for which they defended the creation of a national bank, the payment of the national debt and the collection of tariffs on imported products. At the international level, the federalists viewed the events of the French Revolution with suspicion and did not hide their sympathies for Great Britain. The Democratic-Republicans were led by Thomas Jefferson and represented the interests of the slave and agrarian south. These favored the development of a smallholder agricultural economy and opposed tariffs and the creation of a national bank because they believed they would affect the interests of ordinary citizens. Internationally, Jefferson and his followers sympathized with revolutionary France and displayed a clearly anti-British attitude.
