USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the controversial presidential election of 1824-in which the contest was decided in favor of John Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives-Democratic Republicans split over whether to support or oppose the defeated candidate Andrew Jackson in the 1828 election.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Northern Democratic Party was a leg of the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election, when the party split in two factions because of disagreements over slavery. They held two conventions before the election, in Charleston and Baltimore, where they established their platform.

Detailed explanation-3: -The monopoly that the Democratic Party held over most of the South first showed major signs of breaking apart in 1948, when many White Southern Democrats, upset by the policies of desegregation enacted during the administration of Democratic President Harry Truman, created the States Rights Democratic Party.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Democratic Party split over the issue of slavery. Northern Democrats believed in “popular sovereignty, ” or the right of new states and territories to decide if they wanted to include or exclude slavery from their borders.

Detailed explanation-5: -Political factions or parties began to form during the struggle over ratification of the federal Constitution of 1787. Friction between them increased as attention shifted from the creation of a new federal government to the question of how powerful that federal government would be.