THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1800
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
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John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
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Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Adams and Thomas Jefferson led partisan political factions or parties into the national elections of 1796.
Detailed explanation-2: -The followers of both of the first political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans, were organized in loose alliances led by members of the social elite who served in Congress or the executive branch.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first parties were anti-federalist and federalist.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson and his colleagues formed the Republican Party in the early 1790s. By 1795, the Federalists had become a party in name as well.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jefferson passionately promoted states’ rights, while many of Hamilton’s doings in the government went directly against states’ rights. These political and philosophical dissimilarities led to the emergence of the first American political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.