Election+of+1800

=The Election of 1800=

toc The Election of 1800 was against Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. John Adams and Charles Pickney were runnning on the Federalists side, while Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were running for the Democratic-Republicans. Jefferson became the president and Burr was Vice Persident.

The Beginning
President Adams stopped the threat of war in France, and the peace ended the crisis which lead to the Alien and Sedition Acts. This also it helped Jefferson in his campaign of 1800. In the campiagn the Federalists were badly divided. Hamilton hated Adams so much that he published a pamphlet that called Adams as jealous, vain, and stubborn. Hamilton thought Adams was not the right man to be president. This helped Jefferson a lot in his campaign later against Adams.

The End of the Election
At the end of the election there was a lot of bickering between both parties, but Jefferson recieved 73 electoral votes and Adams only recieved 65. However, Aaron Burr (running to be Jefferson's VP) also had 73 votes. So they went to the House of Representatives and the house voted 35 times before Jefferson won. Someone must have changed their vote, so after the election congress created the 12th amendment. The 12th amendement has to do with how we elect our president, and how the canidate choses his or her pick of VP.

Jefferson's Inaugural Address
Jefferson's inaugural address was delivered in the Senate chamber of the Capitol on March 4,1801. He beileved that his election was a kind of second revolution of America for the Federalists' attempt to make the United States a monarchy. " Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Democratic-Repblicans- we are all Fedrealists" -Thomas Jefferson.

The Beginning of Presidentancy
Jefferson canceled the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Wiskey tax in 1802. Jefferson didn't encounter many serious problems his first term. Jefferson appointed John Marshall to be the Cheif Justice.

Conclusion
I think that having the system where Burr became Vice president is extremly long and werid. I also believe that Jefferson was right about how we are both Fedrealists and Democratic-Republicans, because we are all Americans. I think Jefferson was a very good President.

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