<p>I just read that in the giant AHAP review and I had never heard of that before. Does anyone know anything aobut this or what I'm talking about?</p>
<p>the corrupt bargain caused a split? I know that opposition to Jackson gave fire to the Whig Party... but I've never heard of the corrupt bargain causing a rift in the dem-repub party.</p>
<p>form the big thing herself:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jackson supporters called Adams victory the Corrupt Bargain b/c soon after the election Clay was chosen Secretary of State in Adams administration and his American System was supported. </li>
<li>So, with that slight issue, the DR party split into the
National Republicans [J.Q. supporters] the NRs generally favored a more involved govt that had an active role in numerous aspects of peoples lives.
Democrats [Jackson supporters] the Democrats had a wide range of views, but basically they stuck to the Jefferson concept of an agrarian society w/limited govt intervention and feared the concentration of economic and political power. They stressed the importance of individual freedom and were against reform b/c it required a more activist govt.</li>
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<p>Umm...let me see...</p>
<p>You had the Federalists and Republicans, right, and the Federalists went away after the Hartford convention...leaving only the Democratic Republicans...I think that after J. Q. Adams became president (the whole "corrupt bargain" thing), that's when Jackson decided to form the Democratic party. I think he called his election...was it 1928?...a revolution. Later the Whig party would form in opposition to Jackson; I think probably it absorbed a lot of former Federalists.</p>
<p>Hope that helped some.</p>
<p>also something else:</p>
<p><em>The Second Party System</em></p>
<ul>
<li>In the 1830s, opponents of the Democrats, many of who were left over from the old National Republican Party, joined together in the Whig Party. The Whigs resented Jacksons power over Congress, and competed on a natl level w/the Democrats from 1834 through the 1840s. </li>
<li>The Whig/Democrat thing became known as the Second Party System, and was more organized and intense than the first DR/Federalist one. </li>
<li>As the years passed the differences between the Whigs and Democrats became clearer
The Whigs favored an economy helped by an active central govt, corporations, a natl bank, and paper currency. They also supported reform they were generally more enterprising and optimistic than the Democrats were. Whigs supporters were generally evangelical Protestants, Methodists, or Baptists and were usually American-born or free black.
The Democrats favored limited central govt and were afraid of concentrated power. Democrat supporters were generally foreign-born Catholics, or non-evangelical Protestants. </li>
<li>When the Presidential Election of 1836 came about, however, the Whigs had not yet become a natl party, so they entered three sectional candidates [Webster, White, Harrison] against the Democrats Martin Van Buren, who won easily. </li>
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<p>isn't it kinda weird how the whigs ( a sorta indirect predessessor of the Republicans) favored reform and federal involvement when now the Democrats hold this position</p>
<p>ha President Tylor's whole cabinet resigned . that's great</p>
<p>so was their a republican party formed during Jackson's time.? if so, what happened to it?</p>