In 1792, the Democrats adopted its name when supports of Thomas Jefferson or the Jeffersonian Republicans, began using the name Republican in order to emphasize anti-aristocratic beliefs. During Andrew Jackson's Presidency in the 1830's, the Democratic Party's name was more relevant. Between 1830's and 50's the Jacksonian Democracy helped shape the Second Party system and forever ending the original First Party system that the United States was founded upon. During the 1840's and 50's the party was in conflict with the Republican party over extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats, unlike Northern Republicans, insisted on protecting slavery in all territories. This is what caused the two party's to split between Republican and Democratic, and what also caused the Nothern and Southern states to have controversy with one another. The Southern Democrats adopted pro-slavery and nominated John C. Breckinridge as their candidate in the election to which Abraham Lincoln would win instead. The Democratic Party identified its self as the "white man's party" that protected and defended only the white man's civil rights, and proposed that the Republican party was "negro dominated"even though whites were in control. In attempt to reform the Southern states, Stephen Douglas of Illinois, pushed through the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in order to initialize and continue the Democrats philosophy of white man's control, as well as protect the history of slaves the country is founded upon and to keep the economy bustling through the help of slave ownership. Unfortunately, once Abraham Lincoln became the next president slavery was eventually abolished through the Emancipation Proclamation. While the Democrats survived, many Democrats joined the newly established Republican party once Lincoln became victor.
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