The Democratic Party used to be called the Republican Party or the Democratic-Republican Party. Later, the name was shortened to Democratic Party. This is the Democratic Party of today. Just before the American Civil War, a new political party emerged, and it was called the Republican Party. The two major parties have retained those names until today.

The American party started as Two Party System but it was not originally Democrats vs. Republican ...I think the disagreement of how the country should be run started with the dispute of Thomas Jefferson along with James Madison starting DemocraticRepublican which use to be one party and Alexander Hamilton for the Federalist Party which was the other competing party, but as time went on the "DemocraticRepublican party became the "Democratic party" the Federalist party ended becoming disbanded Years later the Republican party which was founded by Anti-slavery activist in 1854..... but now majority of American are neither Democratic or Republican I hope this helps

The parties still confuse me, and I think today there's no good way to describe the way one party acts, they kind of go back on forth, mainly you just need to know that there just too parties that like to argue. I don believe on the the general classification of the democratic party is more for spending and less conservative, while the republic is definitely more conservative and against spending. Thats the only why I know how to put it. Anyways today theres know independents and whats called the tea party. The tea party isn't as well recognized and is a relatively newer development.