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The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ ...

Republican James Monroe had run unopposed in the 1820 presidential election ... With Andrew Jackson, he co-founded the Democratic Party in 1828, cannily banking on Jackson’s personal appeal ...

Repealing an 1820 law banning slavery in territories ... resentments became bloody hostilities, the Democratic Party lay shattered, a new Republican Party was created and an Illinois lawyer ...

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Monroe was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. His vice president was Daniel D ... Monroe made these two sides official in 1820 when he signed the Missouri Compromise, which outlawed slavery ...