When did the Democratic-Republican Party break up?

Answer 1

The Democratic-Republican Party didn't die, in the sense that they simply faded as the Federalists had; they actively split the party into two new parties (National Republicans and Democrats) after the Presidential election of 1824 because of major ideological differences that became intolerable to members of the Democratic-Republicans. Some became National Republicans, who were similar to the earlier Democratic-Republican Party, and some became Democrats, who shared more in common with the old Federalist party.

Answer 2

The Democratic-Republican Party split in 1824, while John Quincy Adams was President. President Adams won his first term as a Democratic-Republican, but ran as a National Republican in 1828 and lost to Andrew Jackson, a member of the Democratic Party.

The Democrats and Republicans of the early 19th century were different from the Democrats and Republicans of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Republican Party morphed a few times over the years, becoming the Whig Party from 1833-1856, which then split into the Free Soil and Know-Nothing parties, as well as a new incarnation of the Republicans.

Answer 3

This is the party of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, all wealthy Virginians. As people moved West and new immigrants arrived, the population center shifted as did the power center. In 1824 four men got a substantial number of electoral votes, including two from the West and things were never the same. In 1828, Jackson people organized a national party to contend with the sitting President, John Adams. The old Democratic-Republicans had to find a new party-- either join Adams or Jackson. Most of them became Whigs.

Answer 4

It did not really die, but it split up in 1824. Of its two successor parties, the Democrats have survived to the present (although the party has changed significantly since the 1820s) and Whigs did not, being eclipsed by the Republicans after 1860.

The Democratic-Republican Party effectively destroyed the Federalist Party by 1815, and as a result, the infighting between members of the party became more pronounced than the competition with any other third party. In the aftermath of the election of 1824, the Democratic-Republican Party broke apart into two major parties. The Democratic Party, which contained the majority of the party’s members became a more a West and South-affiliated party and a more populist party. Their first candidate, Andrew Jackson, represented this greater crusade of popular will, greater enfranchisement, and more support for the wishes of lower class Whites. The other side of the split was the Whig Party prevailed more in the Northeast and took on more of an industrial and productive aspect. However, the identities of these parties were not wholly consistent and, similar to today’s Democrats and Republicans, the competition in each state mattered. As a result, a Democrat in Connecticut would be less pro-agrarian than a Whig in Kentucky, even though Democrats were generally more pro-agrarian than Whigs were.

Answer 5

There has never been a political party named the Republican-Democrat Party.

Answer 6

1825