• The U.S. Republican Party Origins

    The Republican Party is one of two major political parties in the United States. Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soliders. There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln. The name “Republican Party” came about in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by Thomas Jefferson’s Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the party‘s leading publicist Horace Greeley, who called for, “some simple name like ‘Republican’ [that] would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery”.…

  • The U.S. Democratic Party Origins

    Founded around 1828 the Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (will do a seperate Republican post). Originally calling themselves the “Republican Party,” Jeffersonians were labeled “Democratic” by the opposing Federalists, who hoped to portray them as purveyors of democracy or mob rule. By the Jacksonian era, the term “The Democracy” was in use by the party; the name “Democratic Party” was eventually settled upon and became the official name in 1844. Members of the party are called “Democrats” or “Dems”. The symbol for the party is the donkey, or jackass. Andrew Jackson’s enemies twisted his name…

  • American Presidents special

    Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, was born on April 13th 1743, on the Shadwell Plantation on the outskirts of Charlottesville, Virginia to Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph, the third out of their ten children. Peter Jefferson was a skilled and successful farmer, and also a qualified cartographer and surveyor, credited with producing the first accurate map of Virginia Province. Thomas’ formal education began at the age of nine, when he studied Latin and Greek at a small private school. At the age of fourteen he extended his studies to develop his classical language skills, and also studied mathematics and literature. Jefferson was…