Democratic Party

• What were the main problems facing the Democratic Party from 1896 to 1910?

  Populism, economic depression, and factionalism, divide between populist democrats and Bourbon democrats, Republican were strong
• How did the Democratic Party revive from 1910?

  Progressive movement, cracks were showing in the Republican political machine, Democrats had a rising political star = Woodrow Wilson

  Wilson = respected, supported by Jennings Bryan, shifted from left wing to centre

  Taft unpopular and too conservative
• Democrats winning the 1912 election

  • Wilson pushed progressive agendas = unifier
  • Democrats appearing United unlike the Republicans