In the late 1820's, the dominant wing of a divided Democratic-Republican Party, led by President Andrew Jackson, deserted the Republican portion of their party, taking the name Democrat and making Jackson the first Democratic President to be elected to office in 1828. In 1854, antislavery supporters dissatisfied with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed each territory to decide its own position on slavery, formed a new party and adopted the Republican name...
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They were joined by individuals who felt the U.S. government should grant land in the western states to settlers for free. The term republican derives from the Latin phrase res publica and means "public thing," or "public affair" and was adopted because it reminded Republicans of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party (GOP...
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Andrew Jackson The people claimed him as one of their own. Once in office, Jackson introduced the Spoils System and vetoed the re-charter of the National Bank. Under the Spoils System, Jackson rewarded his friends with government jobs...	2 / 456
Andrew JAckson Jackson demanded all government deposits be removed from the bank. He had to fire two secretaries of the treasury, until he had one that would do the job...	2 / 354
Andrew Jackson 2 He thought the law that had created the bank was unconstitutional. He criticized the bank for failing to establish a "uniform and sound" currency. Jackson favored a "hard money" policy that was based strictly on currency, or gold and silver...	3 / 719
Andrew Jackson Jackson later lead troops during the First Seminole War in Florida. General Jackson came from the battlefields of the War of 1812 a national hero. It was during this time he got his nickname which is “Old Hickory...	4 / 930