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Democratic-Republican Party
The Democratic-Republican Party (known at the time as the Republican Party and various other names)[a] was an American
political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, political
Democratic-Republican
Party
equality, and expansionism. The Democratic-Republicans became increasingly dominant after the 1800 elections as the opposing
Federalist Party collapsed, and the party splintered during the 1824 presidential election. One faction of the Democratic-Republicans
eventually coalesced into the modern Democratic Party, while the other faction ultimately formed the core of the Whig Party.

The Democratic-Republican Party originated as a faction in Congress that opposed the centralizing policies of Alexander Hamilton,
who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington. The Democratic-Republicans and the opposing
Federalist Party each became more cohesive during Washington's second term, partly as a result of the debate over the Jay Treaty.
Though he was defeated by Federalist John Adams in the 1796 presidential election, Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican allies
came into power following the 1800 elections. As president, Jefferson presided over a reduction in the national debt and government
spending, and completed the Louisiana Purchase with France.
Other name Republican Party
Madison succeeded Jefferson as president in 1809 and led the country during the largely-inconclusive War of 1812 with Britain. After Jeffersonian
the war, Madison and his congressional allies established the Second Bank of the United States and implemented protective tariffs, Republicans
marking a move away from the party's earlier emphasis on states' rights and a strict construction of the United States Constitution. Democratic
The Federalists collapsed after 1815, beginning a period known as the Era of Good Feelings. Lacking an effective opposition, the Party[a]
Democratic-Republicans split into groups after the 1824 presidential election; one faction supported President John Quincy Adams, Leader Thomas Jefferson
while the other faction backed General Andrew Jackson. Jackson's faction eventually coalesced into the Democratic Party, while James Madison
James Monroe
supporters of Adams became known as the National Republican Party, which itself later merged into the Whig Party.
Founded 1792
Democratic-Republicans were deeply committed to the principles of republicanism, which they feared were threatened by the Dissolved 1825
supposed monarchical tendencies of the Federalists. During the 1790s, the party strongly opposed Federalist programs, including the Preceded by Anti-Administration
national bank. After the War of 1812, Madison and many other party leaders came to accept the need for a national bank and party
federally-funded infrastructure projects. In foreign affairs, the party advocated western expansion and tended to favor France over Succeeded by Democratic Party
Britain, though the party's pro-French stance faded after Napoleon took power. The Democratic-Republicans were strongest in the National
South and the western frontier, and weakest in New England. Republican Party
Whig Party
Ideology Jeffersonianism
Republicanism[1]
Contents Classical liberalism
Agrarianism[2]
History
Anti-clericalism[3]
Founding, 1789–1796
Adams and the Revolution of 1800 Political position Centre[4][5] to
Jefferson's presidency, 1801–1809 center-left[6]
Madison's presidency, 1809–1817 From 1815: Big
tent[7]
Era of Good Feelings, 1817–1825
Final years, 1825–1829 Colors Green
(customary)
Party name
Blue White
Ideology Red
Slavery
Politics of United States
Base of support
Political parties
Factions
Elections
Organizational strategy
Legacy
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Congressional representation
Notes
See also
References
Works cited
Further reading
Biographies
State studies
Newspapers
Primary sources
External links

History

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Founding, 1789–1796
In the 1788–89 presidential election, the first such election following the ratification of the United States Constitution in
1788, George Washington won the votes of every member of the Electoral College.[8] His unanimous victory in part
reflected the fact that no formal political parties had formed at the national level in the United States prior to 1789, though
the country had been broadly polarized between the Federalists, who supported ratification of the Constitution, and the
Anti-Federalists, who opposed ratification.[9] Washington selected Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State and Alexander
Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury,[10] and he relied on James Madison as a key adviser and ally in Congress.[11]

Hamilton implemented an expansive economic program, establishing the First Bank of the United States,[12] and
convincing Congress to assume the debts of state governments.[13] Hamilton pursued his programs in the belief that they
would foster a prosperous and stable country.[14] His policies engendered an opposition, chiefly concentrated in the
Southern United States, that objected to Hamilton's anglophilia and accused him of unduly favoring well-connected James Madison Thomas Jefferson

wealthy Northern merchants and speculators. Madison emerged as the leader of the congressional opposition while
Jefferson, who declined to publicly criticize Hamilton while both served in Washington's Cabinet, worked behind the
scenes to stymie Hamilton's programs.[15] Jefferson and Madison established the National Gazette, a newspaper which recast national politics not as a battle between Federalists
and Anti-Federalists, but as a debate between aristocrats and republicans.[16] In the 1792 election, Washington effectively ran unopposed for president, but Jefferson and Madison
backed New York Governor George Clinton's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Vice President John Adams.[17]

Political leaders on both sides were reluctant to label their respective faction as a political party, but distinct and consistent voting blocs emerged in Congress by the end of 1793.
Ultimately, Jefferson's followers became known as the Republicans (or the Democratic-Republicans)[18] and Hamilton's followers became known as the Federalists.[19] While
economic policies were the original motivating factor in the growing partisan split, foreign policy also became a factor as Hamilton's followers soured on the French Revolution
and Jefferson's allies continued to favor it.[20] In 1793, after Britain entered the French Revolutionary Wars, several Democratic-Republican Societies were formed in opposition to
Hamilton's economic policies and in support of France.[21] Partisan tensions escalated as a result of the Whiskey Rebellion and Washington's subsequent denunciation of the
Democratic-Republican Societies, a group of local political societies that favored democracy and generally supported the Democratic-Republican Party.[22] The ratification of the
Jay Treaty further inflamed partisan warfare, resulting in a hardening of the divisions between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.[21]

By 1795–96, election campaigns—federal, state and local—were waged primarily along partisan lines between the two national parties, although local issues continued to affect
elections, and party affiliations remained in flux.[23] As Washington declined to seek a third term, the 1796 presidential election became the first contested president election.
Having retired from Washington's Cabinet in 1793, Jefferson had left the leadership of the Democratic-Republicans in Madison's hands. Nonetheless, the Democratic-Republican
congressional nominating caucus chose Jefferson as the party's presidential nominee on the belief that he would be the party's strongest candidate; the caucus chose Senator
Aaron Burr of New York as Jefferson's running mate.[24] Meanwhile, an informal caucus of Federalist leaders nominated a ticket of John Adams and Thomas Pinckney.[25]
Though the candidates themselves largely stayed out of the fray, supporters of the candidates waged an active campaign; Federalists attacked Jefferson as a francophile and
atheist, while the Democratic-Republicans accused Adams of being an anglophile and a monarchist.[26] Ultimately, Adams won the presidency by a narrow margin, garnering 71
electoral votes to 68 for Jefferson, who became the vice president.[25][b]

Adams and the Revolution of 1800

Shortly after Adams took office, he dispatched a group of envoys to seek peaceful relations with France, which had begun
attacking American shipping after the ratification of the Jay Treaty. The failure of talks, and the French demand for bribes
in what became known as the XYZ Affair, outraged the American public and led to the Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war
between France and the United States. The Federalist-controlled Congress passed measures to expand the army and navy
and also pushed through the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Alien and Sedition Acts restricted speech that was critical of the
government, while also implementing stricter naturalization requirements.[28] Numerous journalists and other individuals
aligned with the Democratic-Republicans were prosecuted under the Sedition Act, sparking a backlash against the
Federalists.[29] Meanwhile, Jefferson and Madison drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which held that state
legislatures could determine the constitutionality of federal laws.[30]

In the 1800 presidential election, the Democratic-Republicans once again nominated a ticket of Jefferson and Burr. Shortly
after a Federalist caucus re-nominated President Adams on a ticket with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Adams dismissed
two Hamilton allies from his Cabinet, leading to an open break between the two key figures in the Federalist Party.[31] Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams in the
Though the Federalist Party united against Jefferson's candidacy and waged an effective campaign in many states, the 1800 presidential election, thereby becoming
Democratic-Republicans won the election by winning most Southern electoral votes and carrying the crucial state of New the first Democratic-Republican president
York.[32] Jefferson and Burr both finished with 73 electoral votes, more than Adams or Pinckney, necessitating a contingent
election between Jefferson and Burr in the House of Representatives.[b] Burr declined to take his name out of
consideration, and the House deadlocked as most Democratic-Republican congressmen voted for Jefferson and most Federalists voted for Burr. Preferring Jefferson to Burr,
Hamilton helped engineer Jefferson's election on the 36th ballot of the contingent election.[33] Jefferson would later describe the 1800 election, which also saw Democratic-
Republicans gain control of Congress, as the "Revolution of 1800", writing that it was "as real of a revolution in the principles of our government as that of [1776] was in its
form."[34] In the final months of his presidency, Adams reached an agreement with France to end the Quasi-War[35] and appointed several Federalist judges, including Chief
Justice John Marshall.[36]

Jefferson's presidency, 1801–1809

Despite the intensity of the 1800 election, the transition of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans was peaceful.[37] In his inaugural address, Jefferson
indicated that he would seek to reverse many Federalist policies, but he also emphasized reconciliation, noting that "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle."[38]
He appointed a geographically balanced and ideologically moderate Cabinet that included Madison as Secretary of State and Albert Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury;
Federalists were excluded from the Cabinet, but Jefferson appointed some prominent Federalists and allowed many other Federalists to keep their positions.[39] Gallatin
persuaded Jefferson to retain the First Bank of the United States, a major part of the Hamiltonian program, but other Federalist policies were scrapped.[40] Jefferson and his
Democratic-Republican allies eliminated the whiskey excise and other taxes,[41] shrank the army and the navy,[42] repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and pardoned all ten

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individuals who had been prosecuted under the acts.[43]

With the repeal of Federalist laws and programs, many Americans had little contact with the federal government in their daily
lives, with the exception of the postal service.[44] Partly as a result of these spending cuts, Jefferson lowered the national debt
from $83 million to $57 million between 1801 and 1809.[45] Though he was largely able to reverse Federalist policies, Federalists
retained a bastion of power on the Supreme Court; Marshall Court rulings continued to reflect Federalist ideals until Chief
Justice Marshall's death in the 1830s.[46] In the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, the Marshall Court established the
power of judicial review, through which the judicial branch had the final word on the constitutionality of federal laws.[47]

By the time Jefferson took office, Americans had settled as far west as the Mississippi River.[48] Many in the United States,
particularly those in the west, favored further territorial expansion, and especially hoped to annex the Spanish province of The 1803 Louisiana Purchase totaled
Louisiana.[49] In early 1803, Jefferson dispatched James Monroe to France to join ambassador Robert Livingston on a 827,987 square miles (2,144,480 square
diplomatic mission to purchase New Orleans.[50] To the surprise of the American delegation, Napoleon offered to sell the entire kilometers), doubling the size of the United
States.
territory of Louisiana for $15 million.[51] After Secretary of State James Madison gave his assurances that the purchase was well
within even the strictest interpretation of the Constitution, the Senate quickly ratified the treaty, and the House immediately
authorized funding.[52] The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States, and Treasury Secretary Gallatin was
forced to borrow from foreign banks to finance the payment to France.[53] Though the Louisiana Purchase was widely popular, some
Federalists criticized it; Congressman Fisher Ames argued that "we are to spend money of which he have too little for land of which we
already have too much."[54]

By 1804, Vice President Burr had thoroughly alienated Jefferson, and the Democratic-Republican presidential nominating caucus
chose George Clinton as Jefferson's running mate for the 1804 presidential election. That same year, Burr challenged Hamilton to a
duel after taking offense to a comment allegedly made by Hamilton; Hamilton died in the subsequent duel. Bolstered by a superior
party organization, Jefferson won the 1804 election in a landslide over Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.[55] In 1807,
as the Napoleonic Wars continued, the British announced the Orders in Council, which called for a blockade on the French Empire.[56]
In response to subsequent British and French attacks on American shipping, the Jefferson administration passed the Embargo Act of
1807, which cut off trade with Europe.[57] The embargo proved unpopular and difficult to enforce, especially in Federalist-leaning New
England, and expired at the end of Jefferson's second term.[58] Jefferson declined to seek a third term in the 1808 presidential election,
but helped Madison triumph over George Clinton and James Monroe at the party's congressional nominating caucus. Madison won the
general election in a landslide over Pinckney.[59] Albert Gallatin served as Secretary
of the Treasury under Presidents
Jefferson and Madison
Madison's presidency, 1809–1817
As attacks on American shipping continued after Madison took office, both Madison and the broader American public
moved towards war.[60] Popular anger towards Britain led to the election of a new generation of Democratic-Republican
leaders, including Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, who championed high tariffs, federally-funded internal improvements,
and a belligerent attitude towards Britain.[61] On June 1, 1812, Madison asked Congress for a declaration of war.[62] The
declaration was passed largely along sectional and party lines, with intense opposition coming from the Federalists and
some other congressmen from the Northeast.[63] For many who favored war, national honor was at stake; John Quincy
Adams wrote that the only alternative to war was "the abandonment of our right as an independent nation."[64] George
Clinton's nephew, DeWitt Clinton, challenged Madison in the 1812 presidential election. Though Clinton assembled a
formidable coalition of Federalists and anti-Madison Democratic-Republicans, Madison won a close election.[65]

Madison initially hoped for a quick end to the War of 1812, but the war got off to a disastrous start.[66] The United States Henry Clay John C. Calhoun
had more military success in 1813, and a force under William Henry Harrison crushed Native American and British
resistance in the Old Northwest with a victory in the Battle of the Thames. The British shifted soldiers to North America in
1814 following the abdication of Napoleon, and a British detachment burned Washington in August 1814.[67] In early 1815, Madison learned that his negotiators in Europe had
reached the Treaty of Ghent, ending the war without major concessions by either side.[68] Though it had no effect on the treaty, General Andrew Jackson's victory in the January
1815 Battle of New Orleans ended the war on a triumphant note.[69] Napoleon's defeat at the June 1815 Battle of Waterloo brought a final end to the Napoleonic Wars and attacks
on American shipping.[70] With Americans celebrating a successful "second war of independence" from Britain, the Federalist Party party slid towards national irrelevance.[71] The
subsequent period of virtually one-party rule by the Democratic-Republican Party is known as the "Era of Good Feelings."

In his first term, Madison and his allies had largely hewed to Jefferson's domestic agenda of low taxes and a reduction of the national debt, and Congress allowed the national
bank's charter to expire during Madison's first term.[72] The challenges of the War of 1812 led many Democratic-Republicans to reconsider the role of the federal government.[73]
When the 14th Congress convened in December 1815, Madison proposed the re-establishment of the national bank, increased spending on the army and the navy, and a tariff
designed to protect American goods from foreign competition. Madison's proposals were strongly criticized by strict constructionists like John Randolph, who argued that
Madison's program "out-Hamiltons Alexander Hamilton."[74] Responding to Madison's proposals, the 14th Congress compiled one of the most productive legislative records up to
that point in history, enacting the Tariff of 1816 and establishing the Second Bank of the United States.[75] At the party's 1816 congressional nominating caucus, Secretary of State
James Monroe defeated Secretary of War William H. Crawford in a 65-to-54 vote.[76] The Federalists offered little opposition in the 1816 presidential election and Monroe won in
a landslide election.[77]

Era of Good Feelings, 1817–1825

Monroe believed that the existence of political parties was harmful to the United States,[78] and he sought to usher in the end of the Federalist Party by avoiding divisive policies
and welcoming ex-Federalists into the fold.[79] Monroe favored infrastructure projects to promote economic development and, despite some constitutional concerns, signed bills
providing federal funding for the National Road and other projects.[80] Partly due to the mismanagement of national bank president William Jones, the country experienced a
prolonged economic recession known as the Panic of 1819.[81] The panic engendered a widespread resentment of the national bank and a distrust of paper money that would
influence national politics long after the recession ended.[82] Despite the ongoing economic troubles, the Federalists failed to field a serious challenger to Monroe in the 1820
presidential election, and Monroe won re-election essentially unopposed.[83]

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During the proceedings over the admission of Missouri Territory as a state, Congressman James Tallmadge, Jr. of New York "tossed a
bombshell into the Era of Good Feelings" by proposing amendments providing for the eventual exclusion of slavery from Missouri.[84]
The amendments sparked the first major national slavery debate since the ratification of the Constitution,[85] and instantly exposed the
sectional polarization over the issue of slavery.[86] Northern Democratic-Republicans formed a coalition across partisan lines with the
remnants of the Federalist Party in support of the amendments, while Southern Democratic-Republicans were almost unanimously
against such the restrictions.[87] In February 1820, Congressman Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois proposed a compromise, in which
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, but slavery would be excluded in the remaining territories north of the parallel 36°30′
north.[88] A bill based on Thomas's proposal became law in April 1820.[89]

By 1824, the Federalist Party had largely collapsed as a national party, and the 1824 presidential election was waged by competing
members of the Democratic-Republican Party.[90] The party's congressional nominating caucus was largely ignored, and candidates
were instead nominated by state legislatures.[91] Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, former Speaker of the House Henry Clay,
Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford, and General Andrew Jackson emerged as the major candidates in the election.[92] The
regional strength of each candidate played an important role in the election; Adams was popular in New England, Clay and Jackson
James Monroe, the third
were strong in the West, and Jackson and Crawford competed for the South.[92]
Democratic-Republican president

As no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote in the 1824 election, the House of Representatives held a contingent election to
determine the president.[93] Clay personally disliked Adams but nonetheless supported him in the contingent election over
Crawford, who opposed Clay's nationalist policies, and Jackson, whom Clay viewed as a potential tyrant.[c] With Clay's
backing, Adams won the contingent election.[94] After Clay accepted appointment as Secretary of State, Jackson's
supporters claimed that Adams and Clay had reached a "Corrupt Bargain" in which Adams promised Clay the appointment
in return for Clay's support in the contingent election.[93] Jackson, who was deeply angered by the result of the contingent
election, returned to Tennessee, where the state legislature quickly nominated him for president in the 1828 election.[95]

Final years, 1825–1829

Adams shared Monroe's goal of ending partisan conflict, and his Cabinet included individuals of various ideological and
regional backgrounds.[96] In his 1825 annual message to Congress, Adams presented a comprehensive and ambitious
agenda, calling for major investments in internal improvements as well as the creation of a national university, a naval
academy, and a national astronomical observatory.[97] His requests to Congress galvanized the opposition, spurring the
creation of an anti-Adams congressional coalition consisting of supporters of Jackson, Crawford, and Vice President
Calhoun.[98] Following the 1826 elections, Calhoun and Martin Van Buren (who brought along many of Crawford's
supporters) agreed to throw their support behind Jackson in the 1828 election.[99] In the press, the two major political Four Democratic-Republicans sought the
presidency in 1824: Andrew Jackson, John
factions were referred to as "Adams Men" and "Jackson Men."[100]
Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry
The Jacksonians formed an effective party apparatus that adopted many modern campaign techniques and emphasized Clay
Jackson's popularity and the supposed corruption of Adams and the federal government.[101] Though Jackson did not
articulate a detailed political platform in the same way that Adams did, his coalition was united in opposition to Adams's
reliance on government planning and tended to favor the opening of Native American lands to white settlement.[102] Ultimately,
Jackson won 178 of the 261 electoral votes and just under 56 percent of the popular vote.[103] Jackson won 50.3 percent of the popular
vote in the free states and 72.6 percent of the vote in the slave states.[104] The election marked the permanent end of the Era of Good
Feelings and the start of the Second Party System. The dream of non-partisan politics, shared by Monroe, Adams, and many earlier
leaders, was shattered, replaced with Van Buren's ideal of partisan battles between legitimated political parties.[105]

Party name
In the 1790s, political parties were new in the United States and people were not accustomed to having formal names for them. There
was no single official name for the Democratic-Republican Party, but party members generally called themselves Republicans and
voted for what they called the "Republican party", "republican ticket" or "republican interest".[106][107] Jefferson and Madison often
used the terms "republican" and "Republican party" in their letters.[108] As a general term (not a party name), the word republican had
been in widespread usage from the 1770s to describe the type of government the break-away colonies wanted to form: a republic of
John Quincy Adams won the 1824
three separate branches of government derived from some principles and structure from ancient republics; especially the emphasis on presidential election as a
civic duty and the opposition to corruption, elitism, aristocracy and monarchy.[109] Democratic-Republican after leaving
the Federalist Party earlier in his
The term "Democratic-Republican" was used by contemporaries only occasionally,[18] but is used by some modern sources,[110] partly career
to distinguish this party from the present-day Republican Party. Some present-day sources describe the party as the "Jeffersonian
Republicans".[111][112] Other sources have labeled the party as the "Democratic Party",[113][114][115] though that term was often used
pejoratively,[116][117] and the party is not to be confused with the present-day Democratic Party.

Ideology
The Democratic-Republican Party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy.[118] Ralph Brown writes
that the party was marked by a "commitment to broad principles of personal liberty, social mobility, and westward expansion."[119] Political scientist James A. Reichley writes that
"the issue that most sharply divided the Jeffersonians from the Federalists was not states rights, nor the national debt, nor the national Bank... but the question of social
equality."[120] Jefferson advocated a philosophy that historians would later call Jeffersonian democracy, which was marked by his belief in agrarianism and strict limits on the
national government. In a world in which few believed in democracy or egalitarianism, Jefferson's belief in political equality for white men stood out from many of the other
Founding Fathers of the United States, who held that the rich and powerful should lead society.[121] Influenced by the Jeffersonian belief in equality, by 1824 all but three states
had removed property-owning requirements for voting.[122]

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Though open to some redistributive measures, Jefferson saw a strong centralized government as a threat to freedom.[123] Thus, the Democratic-Republicans opposed Federalist
efforts to build a strong, centralized state, and resisted the establishment of a national bank, the build-up of the army and the navy, and passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.[124]
Jefferson was especially averse to a national debt, which he believed to be inherently dangerous and immoral.[125] After the party took power in 1800, Jefferson became
increasingly concerned about foreign intervention and more open to programs of economic development conducted by the federal government. In an effort to promote economic
growth and the development of a diversified economy, Jefferson's Democratic-Republican successors would oversee the construction of numerous federally-funded infrastructure
projects and implement protective tariffs.[126]

While economic policies were the original catalyst to the partisan split between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists, foreign policy was also a major factor that divided
the parties. Most Americans supported the French Revolution prior to the Execution of Louis XVI in 1793, but Federalists began to fear the radical egalitarianism of the revolution
as it became increasingly violent.[127] Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans defended the French Revolution.[128] until Napoleon ascended to power between 1797 and
1803.[129] Democratic-Republican foreign policy was marked by support for expansionism, as Jefferson championed the concept of an "Empire of Liberty" that centered on the
acquisition and settlement of western territories.[130] Under Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, the United States completed the Louisiana Purchase, acquired Spanish Florida, and
reached a treaty with Britain providing for shared sovereignty over Oregon Country. In 1823, the Monroe administration promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, which reiterated the
traditional U.S. policy of neutrality with regard to European wars and conflicts, but declared that the United States would not accept the recolonization of any country by its
former European master.[131] The Monroe Doctrine would be the cornerstone of American foreign policy for several decades.

Slavery
From the foundation of the party, slavery divided the Democratic-Republicans. Many Southern Democratic-Republicans, especially from the Deep South, defended the institution.
Jefferson and many other Democratic-Republicans from Virginia held an ambivalent view on slavery; Jefferson believed it was an immoral institution, but he opposed the
immediate emancipation of all slaves on economic grounds.[132] Meanwhile, Northern Democratic-Republicans often took stronger anti-slavery positions than their Federalist
counterparts, supporting measures like the abolition of slavery in Washington. In 1807, with President Jefferson's support, Congress outlawed the international slave trade, doing
so at the earliest possible date allowed by the Constitution.[133]

After the War of 1812, Southerners increasingly came to view slavery as a beneficial institution rather than an unfortunate economic necessity, further polarizing the party over the
issue.[134] Anti-slavery Northern Democratic-Republicans. meanwhile, held that slavery was incompatible with the equality and individual rights promised by the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. They further held that slavery had been permitted under the Constitution only as a local and impermanent exception, and thus, slavery should
not be allowed to spread outside of the original thirteen states. The anti-slavery positions developed by Northern Democratic-Republicans would influence later anti-slavery
parties, including the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party.[135] Some Democratic-Republicans from the border states, including Henry Clay, continued to adhere to the
Jeffersonian view of slavery as a necessary evil; many of these leaders joined the American Colonization Society, which proposed the voluntary recolonization of Africa as part of a
broader plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves.[136]

Base of support
Madison and Jefferson formed the Democratic-Republican Party from a combination of former Anti-Federalists and
supporters of the Constitution who were dissatisfied with the Washington administration's policies.[137] Nationwide,
Democratic-Republicans were strongest in the South, and many of party's leaders were wealthy Southern slaveowners.
The Democratic-Republicans also attracted middle class Northerners, such as artisans, farmers, and lower-level
merchants, who were eager to challenge the power of the local elite.[138] Every state had a distinct political geography
that shaped party membership; in Pennsylvania, the Republicans were weakest around Philadelphia and strongest in
Scots-Irish settlements in the west.[139] The Federalists had broad support in New England, but in other places they
relied on wealthy merchants and landowners.[140] After 1800, the Federalists collapsed in the South and West, though
the party remained competitive in New England and in some Mid-Atlantic states.[141]

Factions
Historian Sean Wilentz writes that, after assuming power in 1801, the Democratic-Republicans began to factionalize
into three main groups: moderates, radicals, and Old Republicans.[142] The Old Republicans, led by John Randolph,
were a loose group of influential Southern plantation owners who strongly favored states' rights and denounced any
form of compromise with the Federalists. The radicals consisted of a wide array of individuals from different sections of
Presidential election results from 1796 to 1824.
the country who were characterized by their support for far-reaching political and economic reforms; prominent Darker shades of green indicate that the state
radicals include William Duane and Michael Leib, who jointly led a powerful political machine in Philadelphia. The generally supported the Democratic-Republicans,
moderate faction consisted of many former supporters of the ratification of the Constitution, including James Madison, and darker shades of brown indicate that the state
who were more accepting of Federalist economic programs and sought conciliation with moderate Federalists.[143] generally supported the Federalists.

After 1810, a younger group of nationalist Democratic-Republicans, led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, rose the
prominence. These nationalists favored federally-funded internal improvements and high tariffs, positions that would form the basis for Clay's American System.[144] In addition
to its base among the leaders of Clay and Calhoun's generation, nationalist policies also proved attractive to many older Democratic-Republicans, including James Monroe.[145]
The Panic of 1819 sparked a backlash against nationalist policies, and many of those opposed to the nationalist policies rallied around William H. Crawford until he had a major
stroke in 1823.[146] After the 1824 election, most of Crawford's followers, including Martin Van Buren, gravitated to Andrew Jackson, forming a major part of the coalition that
propelled Jackson to victory in the 1828 election.[147]

Organizational strategy
The Democratic-Republican Party invented campaign and organizational techniques that were later adopted by the Federalists and became standard American practice. It was
especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize its policies.[148] Fisher Ames, a leading Federalist, used the term
"Jacobin" to link members of Jefferson's party to the radicals of the French Revolution. He blamed the newspapers for electing Jefferson and wrote they were "an overmatch for
any Government.... The Jacobins owe their triumph to the unceasing use of this engine; not so much to skill in use of it as by repetition".[149]

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As one historian explained: "It was the good fortune of the Republicans to have within their ranks a number of highly gifted political
manipulators and propagandists. Some of them had the ability... to not only see and analyze the problem at hand but to present it in a
succinct fashion; in short, to fabricate the apt phrase, to coin the compelling slogan and appeal to the electorate on any given issue in
language it could understand". Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane (1760–1835) and party leaders Albert
Gallatin, Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself.[150] Just as important was effective party organization of the sort that John J. Beckley
pioneered. In 1796, he managed the Jefferson campaign in Pennsylvania, blanketing the state with agents who passed out 30,000
hand-written tickets, naming all 15 electors (printed tickets were not allowed). Beckley told one agent: "In a few days a select republican
friend from the City will call upon you with a parcel of tickets to be distributed in your County. Any assistance and advice you can
furnish him with, as to suitable districts & characters, will I am sure be rendered". Beckley was the first American professional
campaign manager and his techniques were quickly adopted in other states.[151]

The emergence of the new organizational strategies can be seen in the politics of Connecticut around 1806, which have been well
documented by Cunningham. The Federalists dominated Connecticut, so the Republicans had to work harder to win. In 1806, the state
leadership sent town leaders instructions for the forthcoming elections. Every town manager was told by state leaders "to appoint a
district manager in each district or section of his town, obtaining from each an assurance that he will faithfully do his duty". Then the John Randolph of Roanoke was a
town manager was instructed to compile lists and total the number of taxpayers and the number of eligible voters, find out how many prominent member of a group of
favored the Republicans and how many the Federalists and to count the number of supporters of each party who were not eligible to Southern plantation owners known
as the Old Republicans.
vote but who might qualify (by age or taxes) at the next election. These highly detailed returns were to be sent to the county manager
and in turn were compiled and sent to the state manager. Using these lists of potential voters, the managers were told to get all eligible
people to town meetings and help the young men qualify to vote. The state manager was responsible for supplying party newspapers to each town for distribution by town and
district managers.[152] This highly coordinated "get-out-the-vote" drive would be familiar to modern political campaigners, but was the first of its kind in world history.

Legacy
The coalition of Jacksonians, Calhounites, and Crawfordites built by Jackson and Van Buren would become the Democratic Party,
which dominated presidential politics in the decades prior to the Civil War. Supporters of Adams and Clay would form the main
opposition to Jackson as the National Republican Party. The National Republicans in turn eventually formed part of the Whig Party,
which was the second major party in the United States between the 1830s and the early 1850s.[153] The diverse and changing nature of
the Democratic-Republican Party allowed both major parties to claim that they stood for Jeffersonian principles.[154] Historian Daniel
Walker Howe writes that Democrats traced their heritage to he "Old Republicanism of Macon and Crawford", while the Whigs looked
to "the new Republican nationalism of Madison and Gallatin."[155]

The Whig Party fell apart in the 1850s due to divisions over the expansion of slavery into new territories. The modern Republican Party
was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery, and many former Whig Party leaders joined the newly formed anti-slavery
party.[156] The Republican Party sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equality with Clay's program of using an active
government to modernize the economy.[157] The Democratic-Republican Party inspired the name and ideology of the Republican Party,
but is not directly connected to that party.[158][159]

Fear of a large debt is a major legacy of the party. Andrew Jackson believed the national debt was a "national curse" and he took special Andrew Jackson led a faction of
pride in paying off the entire national debt in 1835.[160] Politicians ever since have used the issue of a high national debt to denounce Democratic-Republicans that
the other party for profligacy and a threat to fiscal soundness and the nation's future.[161] ultimately coalesced into the
Democratic Party

Electoral history

Presidential elections

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Ticket Popular vote Electoral vote

Election
Presidential nominee Running mate Percentage Electoral votes Ranking

68 / 138
1796 46.6 2
Aaron Burr[B]
73 / 138
1800 Thomas Jefferson[A] 61.4 1

162 / 176
1804 72.8 1
George Clinton
122 / 176
1808 64.7 1
James Madison
128 / 217
Elbridge Gerry 50.4 1
1812
89 / 217
DeWitt Clinton[C] Jared Ingersoll 47.6 2

183 / 217
1816 68.2 1
James Monroe Daniel D. Tompkins
231 / 232
1820 80.6 1

99 / 261
Andrew Jackson 41.4 1
John C. Calhoun
84 / 261
John Quincy Adams 30.9 2
1824[D]
41 / 261
William H. Crawford Nathaniel Macon 11.2 3

37 / 261
Henry Clay Nathan Sanford 13 4

A. In his first presidential run, Jefferson did not win the presidency, and Burr did not win the vice presidency. However, under the pre-12th Amendment election rules, Jefferson
won the vice presidency due to dissension among Federalist electors.
B. In their second presidential run, Jefferson and Burr received the same number of electoral votes. Jefferson was subsequently chosen as President by the House of
Representatives.
C. While commonly labeled as the Federalist candidate, Clinton technically ran as a Democratic-Republican and was not nominated by the Federalist party itself, the latter
simply deciding not to field a candidate. This did not prevent endorsements from state Federalist parties (such as in Pennsylvania), but he received the endorsement from the
New York state Democratic-Republicans as well.
D. William H. Crawford and Albert Gallatin were nominated for president and vice-president by a group of 66 Congressmen that called itself the "Democratic members of
Congress".[162] Gallatin later withdrew from the contest. Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ran as Republicans, although they were not nominated by any
national body. While Jackson won a plurality in the electoral college and popular vote, he did not win the constitutionally required majority of electoral votes to be elected
president. The contest was thrown to the House of Representatives, where Adams won with Clay's support. The electoral college chose John C. Calhoun for vice president.

Congressional representation
The affiliation of many Congressmen in the earliest years is an assignment by later historians. The parties were slowly coalescing groups; at first there were many independents.
Cunningham noted that only about a quarter of the House of Representatives up until 1794 voted with Madison as much as two-thirds of the time and another quarter against him
two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent.[163]

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Senate[164] House of Representatives[165]

Anti- Pro- Anti- Pro-

Congress Years Total Admin Admin Others Vacancies Total Admin Admin Others Vacancies President

1st 1789–1791 26 8 18 — — 65 28 37 — —
George
2nd 1791–1793 30 13 16 — 1 69 30 39 — —
Washington
3rd 1793–1795 30 14 16 — — 105 54 51 — —

Democratic- Democratic-
Congress Years Total Republicans Federalists Others Vacancies Total Republicans Federalists Others Vacancies President

George
4th 1795–1797 32 11 21 — — 106 59 47 — —
Washington

5th 1797–1799 32 10 22 — — 106 49 57 — — John

6th 1799–1801 32 10 22 — — 106 46 60 — — Adams

7th 1801–1803 34 17 15 — 2 107 68 38 — 1

8th 1803–1805 34 25 9 — — 142 103 39 — — Thomas

9th 1805–1807 34 27 7 — — 142 114 28 — — Jefferson

10th 1807–1809 34 28 6 — — 142 116 26 — —

11th 1809–1811 34 27 7 — — 142 92 50 — —

12th 1811–1813 36 30 6 — — 143 107 36 — — James

13th 1813–1815 36 28 8 — — 182 114 68 — — Madison

14th 1815–1817 38 26 12 — — 183 119 64 — —

15th 1817–1819 42 30 12 — — 185 146 39 — —

16th 1819–1821 46 37 9 — — 186 160 26 — — James

17th 1821–1823 48 44 4 — — 187 155 32 — — Monroe

18th 1823–1825 48 43 5 — — 213 189 24 — —

Pro- Pro- Pro- Pro-

Congress Years Total Jackson Adams Others Vacancies Total Jackson Adams Others Vacancies President

19th 1825–1827 48 26 22 — — 213 104 109 — — John

Quincy
20th 1827–1829 48 27 21 — — 213 113 100 — — Adams

Senate House of Representatives

Notes
a. Party members generally, but not exclusively, referred to it as the Republican Party. Partly to distinguish this party from the current Republican Party, political scientists have
used other names for the party. For details and references, see the section Republican Party name.
b. Prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes, with no distinction made between electoral votes for
president and electoral votes for vice president. Under these rules, an individual who received more votes than any other candidate, and received votes from a majority of the
electors, was elected as president. If neither of those conditions were met, the House of Representatives would select the president through a contingent election in which
each state delegation received one vote. After the selection of the president, the individual who finished with the most votes was elected as vice president, with the Senate
holding a contingent election in the case of a tie.[27]
c. Clay himself was not eligible in the contingent election because the House could only choose from the top-three candidates in the electoral vote tally. Clay finished a close
fourth to Crawford in the electoral vote.[94]

See also
American Enlightenment
Anti-Federalism
History of the United States Democratic Party
History of U.S. foreign policy, 1801–1829
Jacksonian democracy
Liberal-Conservative Party
List of political parties in the United States

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Dawson, Matthew Q. Partisanship and the Birth of America's Second Party,
1796–1800: Stop the Wheels of Government. Greenwood, 2000.
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political history of 1790s.
Ferling, John. Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2004)
(ISBN 0-19-516771-6).
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Genius of an American Icon (https://archive.org/details/ascentofgeorgewa00ferl).
New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-465-0.
Gammon, Samuel Rhea. The Presidential Campaign of 1832 (https://archive.org/d
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America 1815–1848 (https://archive.org/details/whathathgodwroug00howe). Oxford
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Klein, Philip Shriver. Pennsylvania Politics, 1817–1832: A Game without Rules
1940.
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1965). The Oxford History of the American People (https://a
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History of the Early American Republic (2004).
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Duane, and the Evolution of the Republican Coalition, 1809–1815." American
Nineteenth Century History 14.3 (2013): 283–304.
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Jefferson (1965) on the Randolph faction.
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Humphrey, Carol Sue The Press of the Young Republic, 1783–1833 (1996).
Knudson, Jerry W. Jefferson And the Press: Crucible of Liberty (2006) how 4
Republican and 4 Federalist papers covered election of 1800; Thomas Paine;
Louisiana Purchase; Hamilton-Burr duel; impeachment of Chase; and the
embargo.
Jeffrey L. Pasley. "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early
American Republic (2003) (ISBN 0-8139-2177-5).
Stewart, Donald H. The Opposition Press of the Federalist Era (1968), highly
detailed study of Republican newspapers.
National Intell & Washington Advertister. January 16, 1801. Issue XXXIII COl. B.
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Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His
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Cunningham, Noble E., Jr., ed. Circular Letters of Congressmen to Their
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Kirk, Russell ed. John Randolph of Roanoke: A study in American politics, with
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