Definition of turnbuckle. : a device that usually consists of a link with screw threads at both ends, that is turned to bring the ends closer together, and that is used for tightening a rod or stay.
Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson started the  Democratic-Republican party (but they just called it the Republican  party). They created the Republican party to oppose the â¦ Federalist  party. The Republican party that they created was the second  political party in the United States.