Examples of Democrat-Republicans in the following topics:
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- The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
- "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
- Hence, Jefferson, Madison, and other Democratic-Republicans combatted the Alien and Sedtion acts by mobilizing widespread party support during the1800 election campagin and defending those persecuted under the legislation.
- They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
- The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.
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- The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
- The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
- In 1801, the Democrat-Republicans came to power with Jefferson's election to president.
- The election wrought a complete shift in political power and ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule.
- Describe the formation of the Democratic-Republican party and the central grounds of its opposition to the Federalists
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- Federalists spread rumors that the Democratic-Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country (based on the Democratic-Republican support for the French Revolution).
- Meanwhile, the Democratic-Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.
- While Democratic-Republicans were firmly aligned behind Jefferson and Burr, the Federalists began to fracture.
- In order to spite the Democratic-Republicans, a number of congressional Federalists kept Burr's chances alive.
- This was the first peaceful transfer of political power in the history of the republic, and Democratic-Republicans hailed Jefferson's victory as the "Revolution of 1800."
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- The election of 1800 marked a peaceful transition of power from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans.
- Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.
- Democratic-Republicans promoted the vision of a decentralized economy that favored yeoman agriculture, minimal and simple federal government, and maximum freedom of mobility and opportunity for white men.
- While Democratic-Republicans were firmly aligned behind Jefferson and Burr, the Federalists began to fracture.
- The transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans in a peaceful manner was the most significant and surprising outcome of the election.
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- The day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.
- Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas.
- Republicans Frank Lucas and Ron Lewis picked up two congressional seats from Democrats in Oklahoma and Kentucky in May 1994.
- The 1994 election also marked the end of the Conservative Coalition, a bipartisan coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats (often referred to as "boll weevil Democrats" for their association with the U.S.
- In the 2006 elections, Democrats won both the House of Representatives (233 Democrats, 202 Republicans) and the Senate (49 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 2 Independents caucusing with the Democrats) as well as the majority of state governorships (28-22).
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- Republican President Bush faced opposition for many of his initiatives by the Democratic Congress, resulting in a gridlocked government.
- Because of the Democratic Party majority in both houses, Republican President George H.
- Scrambling, Bush accepted the Democrats' demands for higher taxes and more spending, which alienated him from Republicans and gave way to a sharp decrease in popularity.
- This agreement with the Democratic leadership in Congress proved to be a turning point in the Bush presidency; his popularity among Republicans never fully recovered.
- Red indicates 2 Republican seats, dark blue indicates 2 Democratic seats, and pink indicates one Republican and one Democratic seat.
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- The midterm elections of 1894 brought a major Republican victory and fragmented the Democratic Party.
- The fragmented and disoriented Democratic Party was crushed everywhere outside the South, losing more than half its seats to the Republican Party.
- Even in the South, the Democrats lost seats to Republican-Populist electoral fusion in Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
- The Democrats lost 125 seats in the election while the Republicans gained 130 seats.
- The main issues revolved around the severe economic depression, which the Republicans blamed on the conservative Bourbon Democrats led by Cleveland.
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- In the South, political and racial tensions developed within the Republican Party as a response to attacks by the Democrats.
- Finally, some of the more prosperous freedmen were joining the Democrats, angered by the failure of the Republicans to help them acquire land.
- Democrats began asserting that they were just as loyal to the United States as the Republicans and now supported some civil rights.
- Democrats began pushing for economic modernization and recovery, alleging that the Republican-controlled state governments were inefficient and corrupt.
- Republicans attacked the Democrats as being insincere about reform, committed to states' rights at the expense of national unity and to white supremacy at the expense of civil rights.
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- The Liberal Republicans successfully ran B.G.
- Brown for the governorship of Missouri and won with Democrat support.
- The Democrats, who at this time had no strong candidate choice of their own, reluctantly adopted Greeley as their candidate with Governor B.G.
- Grant had remained a popular Civil War hero, and the Republicans continued to wave the "bloody shirt" as a patriotic symbol intended to remind voters that the Democrats did not support the war effort.
- Because of political infighting between Liberal Republicans and Democrats, the physically ailing Greeley was no match for Grant, the "Hero of Appomattox," and lost dismally in the popular vote.
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- In 1884, the Democrats gathered in Chicago for their National Convention.
- The Republican Party nominated James G.
- Many influential Republicans were outraged.
- These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
- The Democrats answered by nominating Cleveland.