Political Party

A political party is a group of people who have certain political beliefs in common. In the U.S. the two main political parties that are called the Democratic party and the Republican party.There are some mascots for the two parties ,the Democratic party has a donkey,and the Republican party has an elephant. The parties control the government,and everyone has to vote for a candidate.The Democratic party started in the late 1700s as the Democratic/Republican party. Then in 1824,it broke into several groups,including the Democratic party. The first two presidents in the Democratic party were Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. In 1854 the Republican party was formed. Then in 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the Republican party tented to be the stronger party. The Republican party elected more presidents and often more members in Congress than did the Democratic party. In the 1930s and early 1940s the Democrats were very strong. During this period,the Americans elected Franklin.D.Roosevelt,a Democrat,president four times.Since the middle1940s,the Democratic and the Republican parties have had equal power. The Republican presidents have spent more years in the White House, but there have been more Democrats elected to Congress.