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From its inception under Jefferson in the 1790s, the Democratic Party was controlled by Southern slave-owners, and aggressively pursued a pro-Southern, pro-slavery program, often at the...
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...
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had divided the country between the pro-slavery South and the anti-slavery North, according to a May 2020 USA Today fact-check. That compromise was instituted more...
Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties, alongside the Republican Party, in the United States. The Democratic Party underwent a dramatic ideological change over its history, transforming from a pro-slavery party during the 19th century to the main American progressive party today.
By the late 1960s, the national Democratic Party had abandoned its former support for legal segregation and enjoyed strong support from Black voters, while Republicans had embraced a white...
Both Bryan and Wilson were leaders of the progressive movement in the United States (1890s–1920s) and opposed imperialistic expansion abroad while sponsoring liberal reforms at home despite supporting racism and discrimination against African Americans in government offices and elsewhere.
Origins. 1) Democrats: The party of Andrew Jackson. US National Atlas, 1970 edition. For 28 years after Thomas Jefferson was elected president in 1800, his party, deemed...
