DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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DEMOCRATIC PARTY

• Symbol Donkey
• Characteristics
• Liberal
• Left-wing
• Allows government intervention
• Government control of the market
• Common Man
• Peoples Party

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Democratic Party History

• Traces ideals to Thomas Jefferson and the
  Anti-Federalists
• Modern Party began with Andrew Jackson in 1825
• Supported by Northern laborer
• South
• Party split by States Rights
• National Expansion
• Slavery
  

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• 1912 Democratic President
• Woodrow Wilson
• Boss/Machine organizations
• Trust Busting
• Muckraking
• Party dealing with the following issues
• Racism
• Antiforeign attitudes
• Ku Klux Klan