Question

The primaries now choose the candidates for president, but this was once the job of which of these groups

Answer 1

In the early 19th century, the ruling political party was the Democratic-Republicans. They selected their candidate through a vote of their members in Congress. This system let them control the White House for 20 years. Then the rivalry of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.divided the Democratic-Republicans into two after the 1824 elections and became Democrats and Whigs.