Revolution Of 1800 Dbq Analysis

In 1800’s election which was also known as The Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both were both running for President, which eventually led up to them getting tied. Soon after, they found out they were running against John Adams and Pickney. Jefferson and Burr where Democratic-Republicans who both wanted the same thing. They came to one overall decision. It took time to come up with the decisions, but once they agreed on one it was then sent to the House of Representatives to choose who won.
Alexander Hamilton came into the picture after the decision was made which then made him want to help out. He persuaded the House to vote in favor of Jefferson instead of the others who were running. In 1804 the twelfth alteration was …show more content…
They begin to attack each other with words. Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican. He believed in having a free enterprise government which he thought would guarantee a little government with a hands off way to deal with things like business. Federalists strongly rebelled again Jefferson as an un-Christian person who had sympathy for the French Revolution. They didn’t believe it would be safe to have a French revolution because all it would bring was more chaos and destroy the newly created but weak United States. On the other hand, the Democratic-Republicans told about how uncentralized the United States would be if they were under the federal during Adams's presidency. Republicans' agreed that they wanted to expand of the U.S. army and navy, undertake on individual rights in the Alien and Sedition Acts, and new taxes and decrease the spending money used to support many of the federal actions that were being done. The main thing the Federalists wanted was a strong federal authority to prevent the extras of popular majorities, while the Democratic-Republicans wanted to take away majority of the national authority so that the people could rule more through state governments and let it be brought to one as a whole