USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After Thomas Jefferson and his running-mate, Aaron Burr, tied in the Electoral College vote, Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1800 Burr won the vice presidential nomination on the Jeffersonian Republican ticket. He carried New York state and thus helped bring about a national victory for his party.

Detailed explanation-3: -A decade later, Jefferson candidly wrote that “there never had been an intimacy” between himself and Burr, “and but little association.” By then, however, the course of history had permanently entwined their names.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson seldom wrote articles or essays for the press, but he did urge his supporters such as James Madison, James Monroe (1758–1831), John Beckley (1757–1807), and David Rittenhouse (1732–1796) to publicly counter the Federalists.