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The Democratic-Republicans
Andrew Jackson essentially founded a national Democratic party. The party split just before the Civil War and had to re-organize almost totally. Samuel Tilden was the first candidate of the reformed Democratic Party to have a serious chance of winning.
The question is backward: Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party (formerly called the Anti-Federalists) split into the National Republican Party and the Democratic Party after the contested Presidential election of 1824.
Bringing the democratic party and the interests of rich whites back to power
The effect of Bleeding Kansas on the Democratic party was that it divided the party in half. One half that wanted to expand slavery and the other group didn't.