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Thomas Jefferson is elected President, ushering in an era of democratic domination that lasted until the civil war.
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President Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party includes small farmers, debtors, frontier pioneers, and slaveholders
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The republican party attracted many former Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats
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The election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War marked the beginning of the 75 year Republican Party supremacy
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The depression brings about a shift in the role of government and, led by FDR, a return of the Democrat power
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From this election on, neither party consistently holds the presidency, and congress is often controlled by the opposing party