The Democratic Party has evolved from anti-Federalist factions that opposed Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policy in late 1790. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized these factions in the Democratic-Republican Party. The party in favor of states' rights and strict adherence to the Constitution, is a national bank and the interests of rich, wealthy. The Democratic-Republican Party came to power in elections in 1800. After the War of 1812, the main rival, the Federalist Party dissolved. Democratic-Republican split on the election of a successor to President James Monroe, and the party faction that supported many of the old principles of Jefferson, led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, became the Democratic Party. With the Whig Party, the Democratic Party was the party leader in the United States until the civil war. The Whigs were a commercial holiday, and generally less popular, if better financed. The division of the Whigs on the slavery issue after the Mexican-American War and disappeared. In the 1850's, under the restriction of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, anti-slavery Democrats left the party. Joining with former members of existing parties or decreasing, the Republican Party has become.

Democrats are divided on the choice of a successor to President James Buchanan along the lines of North and South, while the Republican Party took over the 1860 election. As the Civil War, Northern Democrats were divided into War Democrats and the peace Democrats. Confederate States of America, watching the games as evil, has not happened. Most Democrats are united behind the war the Republican president Abraham Lincoln and the Republican National Union Party in 1864 that put Andrew Johnson on the ticket as a Democrat in the South. Johnson replaced Lincoln in 1865, but remained independent of both parties. Democrats benefited from white resentment of southern reconstruction after the war and hostility toward the Republican Party in a row. After Redeemers ended Reconstruction in the 1870's, and the extremely violent disenfranchisement of African Americans occurred in the 1890's, the South, voting Democratic, became known as "solid South." Despite all the Republicans have won two presidential elections, but Democrats remain competitive. The match was dominated by the Bourbons for business Democrats led by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, who represented the commercial banking and railroad interests, and imperialism against the overseas expansion, fought for the gold standard, bimetallism crusade against the opposition and corruption, high taxes and tariffs. Cleveland was elected to nonconsecutive presidential term in 1884 and 1892.

Agrarian Democrats demanding free silver overthrew the Bourbon Democrats in 1896 and nominated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency (a nomination repeatedly by Democrats in 1900 and 1908). Bryan led a vigorous campaign against the interests of the rich East, but lost the Republican William McKinley. Democrats took control of the House in 1910 and elected as President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916. Wilson led Congress to effectively put to rest the issues of tariffs, money, and antitrust that had dominated politics for 40 years with new progressive laws. The Great Depression of 1929 that occurred under Republican President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Congress opened the way for a more liberal government, the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives almost continuously from 1931 to 1995 and won the presidential election until the Most "in 1968. Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected president in 1932, came out with the government program called the" New Deal ". New Deal liberalism meant the promotion of social welfare, labor, civil rights and business regulation. The opponents, who stressed the long-term growth, support business and low taxes, started calling themselves "conservative."

The problems faced by the parties and the United States after World War II include the Cold War and the civil rights movement. Republicans and Conservatives said the white Southern Democratic coalition with their resistance to New Deal liberalism and the Great Society and the use of the Republican Southern strategy. Afro-Americans, who have traditionally supported the Republican Party, Democrats began to support the throne of the New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt and the civil rights movement. main support base of the Democratic Party shifted to the north, which marks a dramatic change in history. Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, which governs like a Democrat of New York. The Democratic Party lost control of Congress in the 1994 elections the Republican Party. Reelected in 1996, Clinton was the first Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected for two terms. After twelve years of Republican rule, the Democratic Party regained majority control of the House and Senate elections in 2006. Some of the key issues in the early game on its platform 21 national past has used the methods of how to fight terrorism, national security, expanding access to health care, worker rights, the environment and preservation programs by the Liberal government. [9] 2010 elections, Democrats lost control of the House, but has maintained a narrow majority in the Senate (111 th Congress reduced). It also lost its majority in state legislatures and the governor of the state.

The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other influential opponents of the Federalists in 1792. The party has also inspired the modern liberal and the Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party was actually born in the early 1830 with the election of Andrew Jackson. Since the division of the Republican Party in the 1912 elections, has been positioned to the left of the Republican Party in economic and social issues. Until the period after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Democratic Party was mainly due to a coalition of two parties divided by regions. Southern Democrats were given generally high ratings from conservative American Conservative Union, while Democrats have generally gave very low scores North. Southern Democrats were a basic block the conservative coalition from both parties that lasted until the Reagan era. The economic philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt activist who strongly influenced American liberalism, has shaped much of the economic program of the party since 1932, and served to unite the two regional factions of the party until late 1960. In fact, Roosevelt's New Deal coalition usually controlled the national government until 1970.

In 2004, was the largest political party, with 72 million voters (42.6% of the 169 million registered) claiming affiliation. In comparison, the Republican Party had 55 million members at the time. During the first quarter of 2009, 52% of Americans identify more closely with the Democratic Party, while 39% did so more closely with the Republican Party. A survey by the Pew Research Center published the registered voters in August 2010 stated that 47% identified themselves as Democrats or leaned toward the party, against 43% of Republicans.