Elections of 1800 and 1828
...e how they are revolutionary and how they help try to achieve democracy for their people. The Elections of 1800 and 1828 started at the expense of much geographical discrimination. New England was sharply divided by politics and their society’s main authority was the clergymen. As Henry Adams said that in New England “The democrat had no caste; he was not respectable…” (The United States in 1800, 56), this showed the hatred for democracy in the society of New England. This was because of the French Revolution that feared many people in New England. Therefore New England was more in support of the Federalists. The Middle States were “too thoroughly democratic to fear democracy, and too much nationalism to dread nationality” (The United States in 1800, 82). We see that Adams was trying to say that democracy was screwed into their minds that now they had no way to fear it or challenge it. We see that people in these states knew that Jefferson was a pure man with great ideals. Finally, the Southern States where mainly democratic. Jefferson was a man with great ideals but his “reforms crippled and impoverished the gentry, but did little for the people, and for the slaves nothing” (The United States in 1800, 98). Therefore even though there was this doubt, the Southerners knew that it would be a great step to resolution. We see that geographical discriminations were a major cause already because of the Election of 1800. As we know that many of Founding Fathers did not want parties because it was selfish and divided the country up but as we also see that it was inexorable. In this Hamilton’s program caused havoc in the Congress and therefore we see the first division of parties. Foreign affairs also caused more separation such as the French Revolution, which was sided by the Republicans but the Federalists sided with the British cause of monarchy. Then the Republicans started blaming the Federalists as Monarchists and the Federalists blamed the Republicans as Jacobins. After a hard campaign by both presidents (Jefferson and Adams), which showed many of their key ideals, Jefferson emerged the victor with Burr, who was supposed to be elected for the Vice-Presidency. After thirty-six ballots in the House of Representatives, which mainly consisted of the Federalists, Jefferson was victorious with some help from Hamilton, who thought Burr was a corrupt man. “Powerful political currents were loose in American, and the two men were in the middle of the turbulence” (The Deadlock of Democracy, 27). Burns says here that the two political parties have created problems in the American society and therefore this is not good for the New Nation. As we see from the tensions, the nation is divided and is doing anything for their party to win. The whole point of unification that even Jefferson supported has been ruined because of the political parties that were created. The Election of 1828 expa...