JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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It went away after the War of 1812
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It split into Democrats (supported Jackson) and Northern Republicans or Whigs (hated Jackson)
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Party members went back to calling themselves anti-federalists
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It created the Republican Party and the Federalist Party
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Democratic-Republicans splintered during the 1824 presidential election. The majority faction of the Democratic-Republicans eventually coalesced into the modern Democratic Party, while the minority faction ultimately formed the core of what became the Whig Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The Whigs were a loose coalition of diverse political interests-Anti-Masons, National Republicans, disillusioned Democrats-united by a shared hatred of President Andrew Jackson. To the Whigs, Jackson was “King Andrew the First, ” a despot who usurped power from Congress to serve his own populist ideals.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Whig Party was a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian Democrats.