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Democratic-Republican Party, first opposition political party in the United States. Organized in 1792 as the Republican Party, its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825. It was the direct antecedent of the present Democratic Party.
During Washington’s presidency, political elites divided themselves into two opposing camps: Federalists, led by Hamilton; and Anti-Federalists (or Democratic-Republicans) headed up by Thomas...
The Republican Party, known retroactively as the Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Democratic Party) [a], was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first Democrat to win the White House since Woodrow Wilson. In his first 100 days, Roosevelt launched an ambitious slate of federal relief programs known...
The competing ideologies and visions of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson crystallized into the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties, establishing the two-party model that has defined American politics ever since.
The modern Democratic Party emerged in the late 1820s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and had largely collapsed by 1824. [4] It was built by Martin Van Buren who assembled many state organizations to form a new party as a vehicle to elect Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.
The Federalist Party dissolved after the War of 1812, and by the 1830s the Democratic-Republicans had evolved into the Democratic Party (now the main rival to today’s Republicans), which...
The Democratic Party is the oldest political party in the United States and among the oldest political parties in the world. It traces its roots to 1792, when followers of Thomas Jefferson adopted the name Republican to emphasize their anti-monarchical views.
Beginning in the 1820s, Democratic Republicans in Congress divided over questions about the powers of the federal government, which set the stage for two new political parties. Republicans who favored a national bank as well as federal funding of internal improvements—roads, canals, and bridges—became known as National Republicans.
The Democratic Party was created in the early 1790s by former members of the Democratic-Republican Party founded by influential Anti-Federalists including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Other factions of the same Democratic-Republican Party formed the Whig Party and the modern Republican Party.