{"id":2331,"date":"2024-01-20T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?page_id=2331"},"modified":"2024-02-14T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:39:54","slug":"election-of-1800","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/course-syllabus\/election-of-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Timeline:\u00a0 Election of 1800<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1796 Washington\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/a-new-nation\/george-washington-farewell-address-1796\/\">Farewell Address<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1797\u00a0 Adams inaugurated president with Jefferson as vice president<\/li>\n<li>1798\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/subject_menus\/alsedact.asp\">Alien &amp; Sedition crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1801\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/jefinau1.asp\">Jefferson inaugurated after electoral college tie with Burr<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>1796 \u2013Washington, Hamilton and the famous \u201cFarewell\u201d Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below: \u201cOne Last Time\u201d from musical \u201cHamilton,\u201d performed at the White House in 2016, a musical rendition of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/washing.asp\">Washington\u2019s Farewell Address (1796)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uV4UpCq2azs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Election of 1800<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the end, the contest came down to a tie between two Republicans, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Aaron Burr of New York, who each had seventy-three electoral votes. (Adams had sixty-five.) Burr was supposed to be a candidate for vice president, not president, but under the Constitution\u2019s original rules, a tie-breaking vote had to take place in the House of Representatives. It was controlled by Federalists bitter at Jefferson. House members voted dozens of times without breaking the tie. On the thirty-sixth ballot, Thomas Jefferson emerged victorious. \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/06-a-new-nation\/#X_The_Election_of_1800\">American Yawp, Chap. 6: Sec. X<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Key Figures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans:\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) and Aaron Burr (New York)<\/li>\n<li>Federalists:\u00a0 John Adams (Mass) and Charles C. Pinckney (South Carolina)<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Hamilton (ex-Secretary of Treasurer)<\/li>\n<li>James Bayard (Delaware)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2502\" style=\"width: 781px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Burr.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2502\" class=\"wp-image-2502 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Burr.jpeg\" alt=\"Burr\" width=\"771\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Burr.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Burr-300x291.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Burr-768x744.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Burr (1756-1836)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Joanne Freeman on Aaron Burr<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is Burr&#8217;s sense of himself as a man of honor that holds the key to his politics, for his democratic opportunism was born of his aristocratic pretensions. &#8211;p. 211<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revolution of 1800<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/jefinau1.asp\">Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timeline:\u00a0 Election of 1800 1796 Washington\u2019s\u00a0Farewell Address 1797\u00a0 Adams inaugurated president with Jefferson as vice president 1798\u00a0Alien &amp; Sedition crisis 1801\u00a0Jefferson inaugurated after electoral college tie with Burr 1796 \u2013Washington, Hamilton and the famous \u201cFarewell\u201d Advice Below: \u201cOne Last Time\u201d from musical \u201cHamilton,\u201d performed at the White House in 2016, a musical rendition of\u00a0Washington\u2019s Farewell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2331\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}