Democratic-Republican Party, referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party and known at the time as the Republican Party and occasional other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, agrarianism, political equality, and expansionism.
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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.
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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.
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In 1793, after Britain entered the French Revolutionary Wars, several Democratic-Republican Party Societies were formed in opposition to Hamilton's economic policies and in support of France.
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Burr declined to take his name out of consideration, and the House deadlocked as most Democratic-Republican Party congressmen voted for Jefferson and most Federalists voted for Burr.
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Democratic-Republican Party 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.
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Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party allies eliminated the whiskey excise and other taxes, shrank the army and the navy, repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and pardoned all ten individuals who had been prosecuted under the acts.
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Monroe believed that the existence of political parties was harmful to the United States, and he sought to usher in the end of the Federalist Democratic-Republican Party by avoiding divisive policies and welcoming ex-Federalists into the fold.
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Term "Democratic-Republican Party" was used by contemporaries only occasionally, but is used by some modern sources.
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Democratic-Republican Party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy.
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Democratic-Republican Party invented campaign and organizational techniques that were later adopted by the Federalists and became standard American practice.
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Coalition of Jacksonians, Calhounites, and Crawfordites built by Jackson and Van Buren would become the Democratic Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated presidential politics in the decades prior to the Civil War.
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The National Republicans in turn eventually formed part of the Whig Democratic-Republican Party, which was the second major party in the United States between the 1830s and the early 1850s.
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The diverse and changing nature of the Democratic-Republican Party allowed both major parties to claim that they stood for Jeffersonian principles.
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Whig Democratic-Republican Party fell apart in the 1850s due to divisions over the expansion of slavery into new territories.
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The modern Republican Democratic-Republican Party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery, and many former Whig Democratic-Republican Party leaders joined the newly formed anti-slavery party.
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The Republican Democratic-Republican Party sought to combine Jefferson and Jackson's ideals of liberty and equality with Clay's program of using an active government to modernize the economy.
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The Democratic-Republican Party inspired the name and ideology of the Republican Party, but is not directly connected to that party.
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