Background Information
The election of 1800 resulted in the election of the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson, sympathetic to France and hostile to aristocracy. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, founded the Democratic-Republican Party and was the third President. John Adams of Massachusetts was a Founding Father, the second president, and the founder of an American political dynasty. The Federalists were those like Alexander Hamilton and John Adams who felt that a strong central government in the new nation was essential to peace and prosperity.