Warm-up #8 What was the XYZ Affair and how did Adams respond to it? How did the Alien and Sedition Acts limit rights?

Election of 1800

Election of 1800 Each delegate gets two votes… Election of 1800 Each delegate gets two votes…. runner up is vice president. WHAT?!

Election of 1800 (a dirty election)

-The winner was decided by the House of Representatives Election of 1800 -Emotional and hard-fought election, with attacks by both sides -Federalists said if Jefferson was elected, his support for the French Revolution would bring bloodshed and chaos to the US -Democratic-Republicans said that under Adams, the federal government was going to become even more powerful -Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both Democratic-Republicans, ended up in a tie -The winner was decided by the House of Representatives -Most Federalists wanted Burr, but Alexander Hamilton used his influence to help Jefferson win -Because power transferred peacefully from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans, the Election of 1800 was also known as the Revolution of 1800

Midnight appointments -Knowing that he was about to leave office, Adams wanted to maintain Federalist influence in the government -Just before he left office, he began appointing Federalist judges to fill up the courts -In order for these newly appointed judges to take their new positions, the commission (job offer) had to be delivered to them -Not all of the commissions were delivered -William Marbury was one of these men who did not receive the commission, and wanted to be a judge -He sued for his commission to be delivered

Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court case in which John Marshall created judicial review by declaring a law unconstitutional

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