Differences Between Adams And Thomas Jefferson

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The ELECTION OF 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was a passionate and hard-battled crusade. Each side trusted that triumph by the other would destroy the country.

Federalists assaulted Jefferson as an un-Christian deist whose sensitivity for the French Revolution would convey comparative carnage and mayhem to the United States. On the opposite side, the Democratic-Republicans reproved the solid centralization of government control under Adams' administration. Republicans' particularly protested the development of the U.S. armed force and naval force, the assault on singular rights in the Alien and Sedition Acts, and new duties and shortfall spending used to help widened government activity.

By and large, the Federalists needed