With Washington retiring after two terms, both parties sought the presidency for the first time. Before the ratification of the 12th Amendment in 1804, each elector was to vote for two persons … See more

Tennessee was admitted into the United States after the 1792 election, increasing the Electoral College to 138 electors.
Under the system in place before the 1804 ratification of the See more

The French foreign minister, Charles Delacroix, wrote that France "must raise up the [American] people and at the same time conceal the lever by which we do so… I propose… to send orders and instructions to our minister plenipotentiary at Philadelphia to … See more

• Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. ed. The Making of the American Party System 1789 to 1809 (1965), short excerpts from primary sources See more

The following four years were the only time that the president and vice president were from different parties. John Quincy Adams and See more

• Inauguration of John Adams
• Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson
• History of the United States (1789–1849)
• First Party System
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• Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754–1829 ed. by Paul Finkelman (2005), 1600 pp.
• The … See more