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2 days ago · The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party (a term coined by historians and political scientists), and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism, republicanism ...
- 1834; 189 years ago
- Washington, D.C.
- May 13, 1792; 231 years ago
1 day ago · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · President Washington then appointed Jefferson the nation's first secretary of state, where he served from 1790 to 1793. During this time, in the early 1790s, Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the nation's First Party System. Jefferson and Federalist John ...
- John Adams
- John Adams
2 days ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
- Herbert H. Lehman
- Woodrow Wilson
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1 day ago · The Republican Party traces its roots to the 1850s, when antislavery leaders (including former members of the Democratic, Whig, and Free-Soil parties) joined forces to oppose the extension of slavery into the Kansas and Nebraska territories by the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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5 days ago · Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
5 days ago · The US Democratic Party is one of two large political parties in the United States. The other is the Republican Party . The US also has some smaller political parties known as “third parties.”. Members of the Democratic Party are known as Democrats. Democrats are also sometimes called ‘the left’, ‘left-wing’, ‘liberals’, or ...
