When the Democratic-Republican party split apart in 1824, different groups split up into different places. In 1825, the liberals followed John Quincy Adams and formed the National-Republican Party. The Democratic Party was formed in 1828, and was, ironically, composed of the conservatives amongst the former Democratic-Republicans. In 1834, it was replaced with the economic party, the Whigs. The Whigs had both liberals and conservatives, so they fell apart twenty-two years later, in 1856, because liberals and conservatives just don't get along. Ever.