Political Parties Analysis

Education is one of the many public services that individuals take for granted. Education, specifically public education, fulfills scores of the nation’s rudimentary ambitions and has done so since the nation’s establishment. In this paper, I will analyze the history of politics in the United States of America. The analysis will major on the birth, change and impact of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States. Likewise, the political history of the political parties will incorporate and outline the manifestos of each political party.
Democratic and Republican Party history
The Democratic - Republican Party was founded in the year 1799 and was dissolved in the year 1828. The party leaders included Thomas Jefferson, James
In 1828, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren joined the new Democratic Party. After the second nomination of Jackson for presidency in 1832 under Democratic Party name, the National Republican Party became the opposition. However, the party did favor a higher tariff in order to protect the United States manufactures and public works. Thereafter the National Republican Party was absorbed into the Whig Party, which later collapsed in the 1850s, over the question of whether or not they should allow the expansion of slave trade into the new territories. Subsequently, the modern Republican Party was formed in 1854, in an attempt to counter the expansion of slave trade. The party merged with former Whig party supporters like Abraham Lincoln, who fought for liberty and equality and used active government to modernize the economy (Donaldson,
The party has given priority to programs that lead to increases in access to higher education, mostly for qualified students. Just like democrats, republicans have targeted increasing benefits to students who are taking challenging course programs and these include, students taking science and mathematics are given priority in terms of savings. This is to ensure that most students are encouraged to take challenging courses like sciences to ensure that the country grows its number of creative and innovative entrepreneurs (Diane, 2010). The Republican Party also favors the growth and expansion of technical organizations, community college programs, cyber universities, private training schools, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector, to generate competition for four-year schools and is a beneficial way to not only make meaningful education easier to get, but a way to impel four-year schools to contest these substitutes levels of job readiness and costs (The Republican Party Platform 2016) (Republican