1. The Election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson – Democratic Republicans
John Adams – Federalists

2. Mudslinging – using insults or slurs to damage the reputation of an opponent
Jefferson
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest (being) openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes.”
Godless
Remove all Federalists from office
Sally Hemmings
Ruin the U.S. economic system
Adams
“Had the hideous hermaphodical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
Tyrant
Elitist
Impatient
Criminal for the Alien and Sedition Acts

3. Result: The peaceful transition of power from one political party to another.

4. Midnight Judges Judiciary Act of 1801 Created the Federal Court system
Up until midnight of his last day in office, Adams was appointing judges
Would they be pro-Adams or pro-Jefferson?
Jefferson refused to recognize the judges

5. Marbury vs. Madison
Result of the midnight judges and Jefferson ignoring the appointment of new federal judges
Created judicial review:
The supreme court has the right to review any regulation to determine if it is constitutional or not