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The Republican Party, known retrospectively as the Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Republican Party) [a], was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who emigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, is an example of human capital flight as a result of political change. When World War II ended, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were all intent on capitalizing on Nazi research and competed for the spoils of war.
The "Fourth Party System" is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, It was dominated by the Republican Party, excepting when 1912 split in which Democrats (led by President Woodrow Wilson) held the White House for eight
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
The Fourth Party System was the political party system in the United States from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party, except the 1912 split in which Democrats captured the White House and held it for eight years. American history texts usually call the period the Progressive Era.
Like a lot of political vocabulary—see also: "left" and "right"—the political meaning of "conservative" came as a result of the French Revolution of 1789, when democratic radicals deposed the ...
The democratic experiment: New directions in American political history (Princeton UP, 2009). Jensen, Richard J. "Historiography of American Political History" in Jack Greene, ed., Encyclopedia of American Political History (Scribner's, 1984), vol 1. pp 1–25 online; Jensen, Richard.
The donkey stuck when Thomas Nast published a political cartoon in "Harper's Weekly" in 1874. The cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic" shows a donkey wearing lion's skin scaring away other animals.