The History of the United States Democratic Party

The Democratic Party has a very important role in the American political history, but the major facts in its history can be declared by very few Americans. The U.S. politics was dominated by the Democrats in two distinct periods that ranges between 1828 and 1860 and between 1932 and 2000. The Democratic Party was established in the year 1829 when Andrew Jackson was declared as the President of the United States. The Democratic Party was founded as most of the Americans had liked Jackson’s ideas.

The Democrats had the power of improving the urban political machine with the votes coming from the immigrants. The power to control the congress or gain the Presidency, the Democrats got a strong base due to the combination of the big urban support from the North and from the South. This fact was cited when the Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidential elections of 1884. The states of the borders, the South, as well as Indiana, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey gave a solid support to the Democrat Grover Cleveland.

It was the period between the civil war and the Great Depression, when the prohibition of voting to African American people in the South was raised by the Democrats. This was made fully cleared when President Woodrow Wilson was in power from 1913 to 1920. The support from the South helped a lot Woodrow Wilson in gaining the seat of President. The First World War was also a big advantage for him in gaining the Presidency. But the Democrats were largely related to the big financial crisis during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.

The Democrats were already being accused by the American electoral body for the financial crisis of 1929, even after the election of the Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. The United States was in the need of shifting to a state of social providence the way European countries has done. But only a small part of social insurance was covered by the new negotiation proposed by the Democrats. Though, in order to bring the United States closer to the advanced European Countries, it was important and right to introduce a new program of negotiation.

Until the 1960s, the African Americans had aligned themselves with the Democratic Party. Under President Johnson an important action of urban rights had been established and imposed by the Democrats. The Democrats were also led by Johnson to the war against poverty. But not fortunate enough, the cost of this program and cost of the war of Vietnam should be combined which led to the rise of deflation in the 1970s. But, during 1990s, when President Clinton took the lead, the Democrats were on the correct side of spectrum and also proceeding in a welfare reform.

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