The Democratic Party was created Thomas Jefferson in 1792 during that time Jefferson supporters called it Jeffersonian Republicans.
The Federalist party rose from Alexander Hamiliton but lost it's traction and disbannded by the War of 1812.For some
time the Democratic was the only party but a new contender came the Wig Party and they two were the leading partys.
When in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed it formed a collition of two partys the Wigs and Free-Soils and created the Republican Party.