United States presidential election of 1796

The election in 1796 showed the emergence of an American party system. In the previous elections in 1789 and 1792, George Washington won unanimous support and partisan elections, but during his presidential election a strong political split was formed around the fiscal policy of Alexander Hamilton It was. In 1791 Hamilton and other people formed a Federal party with loose interpretation of the Constitution and supporting a strong central government. Their opponents gather around Thomas Jefferson and support the strict interpretation of the constitution and the national rights. Jefferson believed that party system was disadvantageous, but he later formed his own party called Democratic Republican.

The political issue of the 1790s came to be seen as the boundary of these political parties, the difference between the Federalist and the Democratic Republic was further exacerbated by foreign policy dispute. In 1796, there was no clear procedure for electing party candidates, but informal and secret preselection meetings held for election of presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates for various party delegations it was done. The Democratic Republic elected Jefferson, and the Federalists nominated the Vice President. John Adams. Neither party can decide candidate for Vice President. However, since the Constitution of the day did not anticipate the rise of the party system, it suggested that the candidate with the second highest total number of votes would become the Vice President

The unfamiliarity of the controversial presidential election and the indirectity of the electoral system brought low public interest, but the close result of the election - in part due to the rapid formation of differentiation within the party. The result was a small victory of Adams, and Adams won 71 electoral votes for Jefferson's 68 people. Adams swept the northeast, and Jefferson won most of the votes in the south and the west. According to the first election system designed by the Constitution (until the 12th amendment changed in 1804), Jefferson became Vice President of Adams - for Adams' party opposing party, for this conflicting party, this situation It was difficult to prove.

Regarding the results of the previous election, please refer to the 1792 US presidential election. For the subsequent election results, please refer to the 1800 US presidential election.

The American presidential election in 1796 was the third presidential election for the third time. It was held from Friday, November 4th until Wednesday, 7th December 1796. This is the first controversial US presidential election, the first presidential election in which the party played the leading role, and presidential and vice presidential elections elected from blacks. Current Federal Vice President John Adams defeated Secretary of the former Democratic Republic Thomas Jefferson

John Adams served as the first vice president of the United States for eight years from 1789 to 1797 during his two terms as President of George Washington. In the American presidential election in 1796, John Adams first took part in the American presidential election and broke Thomas Jefferson in the majority (71-68). Therefore, he became the second President of the United States and served as a term between 1797 and 1801. When Adams became president, there was an ongoing war between Britain and France. Although Washington was neutral in the conflict, the French navy began to cause significant losses in US transport. In 1797 Adams sent a delegation to France to negotiate the end of hostility, but in the so-called XYZ case France demanded a big bribe before the negotiations. This caused an undeclared war between the United States and France called the semi-war. Adams strengthened the US military, but did not declare a thorough war.

The emergence of political parties and nationally coordinated campaigns quickly complicated the elections in 1796 and 1800. Federal candidate John Adams won the presidential election in 1796. Secondly, Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, who is an opponent of the Democratic Party - Federal party and later became vice president. This brought the president and the vice president to become different parties. In 1800, the Democratic Republican Party appointed Jefferson again as President and appointed Aaron Bar as Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr were tied together, and there were 73 election votes for each. Because voting does not distinguish between presidential vote and vice presidential voting, all votes to Burr are technically considered to vote for him to become the president.