THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
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Whigs and Federalists
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Anti-Federalists and Federalists
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Democratic Republicans and Anti-Federalists
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Democrats and Republicans
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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: -The Democratic and Republican parties are currently the primary parties in Congress. Learn more about political party divisions in the U.S. Senate.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two major parties dominated the political landscape: the Democratic Party, led by Andrew Jackson, and the Whig Party, assembled by Henry Clay from the National Republicans and from other opponents of Jackson.
Detailed explanation-4: -The modern Democratic Party emerged in the late 1820s from former factions of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824. It was built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.
Detailed explanation-5: -The followers of both of the first political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans, were organized in loose alliances led by members of the social elite who served in Congress or the executive branch.