What Was The Conflict Between The Political Parties In The 1800's

The first conflict between the political parties occurred after the passage of Washington as the president of the United States. "The United States presidential election of 1796 was the first disputed American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing parties”. The Federalists' had chosen John Adams to run with Thomas Pinckney while Thomas Jefferson ran with Aaron Burr for vice president as the Democrat-Republicans. After an intense race, John Adams won the election with 71 electoral votes and Jefferson beat out Pinckney with 68 votes. The debacles of this election will compound the way the candidates will undertake their roles in the next election.
In 1800 Adams and Jefferson challenge each other once again running for the presidency.

He soon hires a man named James Calendar and pays him to say horrible things about John Adams and the Federalists. In January 1800 calendar publishes the "Prospect Before Us," an 183-page anti-Adams pamphlet, secretly financed in part by Jefferson. The pamphlet incurred Mr. Calendar a nine-month prison sentence under the Sedition Act of the time. Just as important to the election of 1800 was the former New York Senator Arron Burr, a man who Jefferson thinks can help him to defeat John Adams. New York was a pivotal state in the election of 1800 and had many electoral votes that the Republicans needed to win. Aaron Burr had proven that he could use his influence to gain voters as it was assumed that he would be vice president if everything went as planned. The vote counted, Adams received fewer votes than both Jefferson and Burr. The Constitution did not distinguish between electoral votes for president and vice president, as Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson received the same number of votes, 73. Jefferson believed that Burr would step aside, but he