If the Republican party became the Democratic party back in the 1700s-1800s, why is Andrew Jackson the creator of the Democratic party?

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The Republican Party did not become the Democratic Party. The Democratic-Republican Party simply dropped the last half of its name. Most historians credit Thomas Jefferson, in cahoots with James Madison, as the founder of the Democratic Party. Jefferson was the 3rd president and Madison the 4th. Andrew Jackson was a sore loser to the 6th president, John Quincy Adams, in a nasty decision by the House that Jackson called a "corrupt bargain." Jackson came back strongly four years later, elected as the 7th president in 1828, and had a major role in reshaping the Democratic Party and strengthening the executive branch. The first president born in a log cabin, he exemplified the tough frontiersman who pulled himself up by his bootstraps in an age when the nation was expanding westward and the common man was gaining a voice in a government that was no longer the exclusive domain of the landed aristocracy. http://www.democrats.org/a/party/history.html Also see Wiki articles on Jeffersonian democracy, Jacksonian democracy, and the Democratic-Republican Party. Feb 29 08, 1:11 AM