Democratic-Republican Party

(noun)

The political Party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791.

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  • The Republican Alternative

    • The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
    • The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
    • In its early years, the Democratic-Republican party originally coalesced around Jefferson, especially over foreign affairs (.
    • The election wrought a complete shift in political power and ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule.
    • Describe the formation of the Democratic-Republican party and the central grounds of its opposition to the Federalists

  • Jackson and the Democratic Party

    • The modern Democratic Party arose in the 1830s out of factions from the largely disbanded Democratic-Republican Party.
    • The modern Democratic Party was formed in the 1830s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824.
    • The new Democratic Party became a coalition of farmers, city-dwelling laborers, and Irish Catholics.
    • A major cause of his defeat was the new Free Soil Party, which opposed slavery expansion and split the votes of the Democratic Party, particularly in New York where the electoral votes went to Taylor.
    • Describe the key moments in the development of the Democratic Party

  • The "Reign of Witches"

    • The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
    • "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
    • Hence, Jefferson, Madison, and other Democratic-Republicans combatted the Alien and Sedtion acts by mobilizing widespread party support during the1800 election campagin and defending those persecuted under the legislation.
    • They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
    • The Federalists, on the other hand, were suspicious of the Democrat-Republican party's affinity for France, especially since in the released dispatches of the XYZ affair, agent "Y" had boasted of the existence of a "French" party in American politics.

  • From Roosevelt to Taft

    • In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Bryan.
    • The United States presidential election of 1908 was between Republican party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
    • Popular incumbent Theodore Roosevelt, promising not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
    • Despite these two previous defeats, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and populist elements of the Democratic Party.
    • Businessmen continued to support the Republican Party, and Bryan failed to fully secure the support of labor.

  • Depression Politics

    • The midterm elections of 1894 brought a major Republican victory and fragmented the Democratic Party.
    • The fragmented and disoriented Democratic Party was crushed everywhere outside the South, losing more than half its seats to the Republican Party.
    • The Democrats lost 125 seats in the election while the Republicans gained 130 seats.
    • Some of the Bourbons sat out the 1896 election or tacitly supported McKinley, the Republican nominee; others created the third party ticket of the National Democratic Party led by John M.
    • Most Bourbons returned to the Democratic party by 1900 or 1904 at the latest.

  • The Election of 1924

    • Republican Calvin Coolidge benefited from a split within the Democratic Party in winning the 1924 presidential election.
    • Coolidge’s candidacy was aided by a split within the Democratic Party that caused liberals to vote for a third-party Progressive candidate.
    • The Democratic Party candidate for president in 1924 was John W.
    • Davis ran as the nominee of a divided Democratic Party in the presidential election of 1924.
    • Coolidge's successful 1924 Republican campaign for president was aided by a split within the Democratic Party.

  • The Clinton Administration Moves Right

    • In the 1994 midterm election, the Republican party gained control of both the House and the Senate and retained this majority until 2006.
    • The day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.
    • In that same year, Christine Todd Whitman captured the New Jersey governorship from the Democrats and Bret Schundler became the first Republican mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey that had been held by the Democratic Party since 1917.
    • The Senate shifted to control by the Democrats (though they technically were the plurality party as they were one short of a majority) after GOP senator Jim Jeffords changed party registration to "Independent" in June 2001, but later returned to Republican control after the November 2002 elections.
    • In the 2006 elections, Democrats won both the House of Representatives (233 Democrats, 202 Republicans) and the Senate (49 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 2 Independents caucusing with the Democrats) as well as the majority of state governorships (28-22).

  • The People's Party and the Election of 1896

    • Discontent with the two major political parties during the 1896 election year led to strong third party efforts by the People's Party.
    • Some people—mostly Democrats—joined the far-left Populist Party.
    • Many Republicans in the western states, dismayed by the strong allegiance of eastern Republicans to the gold standard, considered forming their own party.
    • When the Republicans nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president in June 1896 and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of "Silver Republicans" walked out of the convention.
    • By 1896, the Democratic Party took up many of the People's Party's causes at the national level, and the party began to fade from national prominence.

  • Reform and the Election of 1872

    • Grant remained popular after his first term and was renominated as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 1872 election.
    • Brown for the governorship of Missouri and won with Democrat support.
    • Then in 1872, the party completely split from the Republican party and nominated New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley as candidate for the Presidency.
    • Because of political infighting between Liberal Republicans and Democrats, the physically ailing Greeley was no match for Grant, the "Hero of Appomattox," and lost dismally in the popular vote.
    • Horace Greeley was soundly defeated as the candidate of the Liberal Republican Party during the election of 1872.

  • Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

    • The so-called Mugwumps, reformist Republicans, left the Republican party in anger at Blaine's nomination in the 1884 presidential election.
    • In 1884, the Democrats gathered in Chicago for their National Convention.
    • The Republican Party nominated James G.
    • These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
    • The Democrats answered by nominating Cleveland.