Part one of term paper
The United States was the first nation to have had organized parties. The Democrat party goes back almost to the origins of the American nation. In 1791, Jefferson and Madison went to New York to meet the anti-federalists grouped around governor George Clinton and the Tammany Club. Jefferson and Madison took advantage of the group's frustrat ...

Part two of term paper
... the Democratic republican party around Andrew Jackson which rapidly was called the Democrat party, and the National republican party, better know at the time as the Whig party, more aristocratic and formed around John Quincy Adams. In 1840, these two parties, together, took up more than 80% of the votes during the presidential elections. The slavery problem in the mid 1800's literally destroyed the system of parties in existence. Two new parties reformed at the end 1850, however. These two parti ...