... number of votes would become vice president. When Thomas Jefferson ran against Aaron Burr for president, the electors voted for candidates in their own parties and there was no majority reached.(Abbott, 77) As the constitution instructed, the debate was sent to the House of Representatives were a decision was finally made to make Jefferson the president and Burr the vice president ... the dispute, but Congress found itself deadlocked. Finally, the issue was settled through the creation of the Electoral Commission of 1877. The Electoral Commission chose Hayes over Tilden on a close party...

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... really had little interest in it. Jefferson showed this as an opportunity for America to develop a relationship with the powerful country. The election reached levels of animosity that has not happened in many other elections. The Federalist Party attacked Jefferson as being an ungodly man who would bring bloody terror to the country (Parton 2006). They attacked Jefferson as being an atheist ... take office (Parton 2006). They made the election about religion and did not have the separation of state. Adams was ridiculed by both the Hamiltonians in his own party but also by Jefferson's p...

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... making barbs."" (pg122) Winter passes, the river melts, and the crew can start the trip again. Later in the expedition before they reached the Pacific, Lewis and most of his men fell sick. "At least three quarters of the party were sick except for the loathed roots, and dried fruits and berries there was no prospects for food."" (pg159) Eventually they would ... recover and set out again and on November 18, 1805, Lewis, Clark, and their crew reached the ocean. The men would stay on the pacific coast and wait ... ...

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... , Madison moved from being Orange County Representative to Virginia State Representative. While in the house, Madison familiarized the Bill of Rights and left the Federalist Party and created his own know as the Democratic-Republic Party. Madison then left his government position and went back home to marry his wife Dolly in 1797, but came back four years later and served as ... wanted war. These people were called "War Hawks". Henry Clay from Kentucky and John Calhoun were two strong War Hawks, but many Federalist did not want a war. Tensions reached a peak when Madison declared war on ...

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... the rebellions that were current in other countries at that time, and feels that it had caused too much alarm. Shay's' Rebellion a farmers' uprising named for its leader Daniel Shays, reached its climax when Shays led 1100 men in an attempt to seize the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. The uprising had been caused by the harsh economic conditions faced by farmers ... Europe. Thomas Jefferson considered himself neither Federalist nor Anti-Federalist. In a letter to Francis Hopkinson, Jefferson defends his political position by stating "if I could not go to heaven but with a party, ...

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... 4-6, Gunderson 14-15). The expedition continued until June 2, 1805 when the Corps came to a fork in the river. They ended up choosing the south fork and traveled it until they reached the Great Falls almost two weeks later. The group was forced to portage (moving the boat out of the water and across the land into another body of water) eighteen ... back. Sacagawea and her newborn child were a symbol of the Corps peace to all of the native tribes that the came into contact with. The tribes knew that no war party would have a women and child along (Marcovitz 9-13). In mid-August, the Corp...

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