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Thomas Jefferson elected as a democratic president which influenced a time of democrats
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Andrew jackson elected and had a democratic party made up of farmers, debtors, slaveholders, and frontier pioneers.
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The Republican party is formed and it drew interest from whigs, and antislavery activists
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Abraham Lincolns election thrust the US into civil war and also put the Republicans in the front seat of government
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the great depression started to bring dominance back to the democratic party led by FDR
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After 1968, neither party consistently holds the office and congress is mostly held by an opposing party.
