Republican Party

Republican Party
 			
Democratic Party 			
Chairman: John Quincy Adams 			
Ideology: Benckendorfite Progressivism, American System, Social Equality			
Founded: March 4, 1817 			
Color: Red 			
The Republican Party was founded on March 4, 1817 from the re-merging of the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Yankee Party. The New People's Labor soon would also join.
== The Adams' Republicans ==
=== President Adams Era (1817-1822) ===
The Republican Party was founded on the principals of social equality and Benckendorfite Progressivism, which matched the north's very progressive ideals of the time. The party soon found itself in control of the Government with them having the elected President of the Presidential Election of 1816 in their party. John Quincy Adams was also the namesake of this era of Republican Party Politics. Serving as President in a debt situation, which he aggressively downsized, Adams also pushed several issues such as enforcing equality and military downsizing as well as non-intervention in the Adams' Doctrine, while dealing in an area of extreme compromise with opposition to make slow and steady progress.
Adams would have likely won re-election if he had run for it, but John G. Benckendorf, son of former President George Benckendorf and Senator of Pennsylvania, had run for the position, winning the party nomination since Adams didn't want to split the party's votes at the time. Adams was still a write-in in the state of Ohio. Benckendorf would lose regardless, letting Democrat James Monroe win the Presidency. Monroe would go on to foolishly get involved in the Portland Affair, which plagued himself and his successor DeWitt Clinton, Monroe and Clinton both resigned in mid-1822, leaving the Presidency to Republican Henry Clay.
=== President Clay Era (1822-present) ===
In 1822 with the resignations of James Monroe and DeWitt Clinton, Henry Clay took the reigns of the nation in mid 1822. Clay was an Adams' ally, and many of his policies reflected that of Adams, even having John Quincy Adams' brother, Thomas B. Adams as his Vice President. Clay chose to remain as non-partisan in his rule as possible, working together to make compromises, but also denying radical thoughts such as the Back to Africa Act. Clay would though try and negotiate with the southern states after they began seceding, but with Congress voting to give the President the power to declare war, somewhat overwhelmingly, Clay declared war on the southern states, sparking the Third American Civil War.
Chairman of the Republican Party:
 	Name 	Home State 	Term
#1	John Quincy Adams 	Massachusetts	March 4, 1817 - March 9, 1821
#2	Henry Clay 	Kentucky 	March 9, 1821 - *Present*
#2	John G. Benckendorf	Pennsylvania 	March 9, 1821 - *Present*
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