Election Of 1800 Campaign Poster Project

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Election of 1800 campaign poster project. Each side believed that victory by the other would ruin the nation. Instead they had to hit the streets with eye catching campaign posters in order. Presidential elections posters on pinterest.

The democratic republicans put thomas jefferson as their candidate and the federalists had president john adams run for re election. Your group has been hired to create a campaign poster for one of the candidates running for president. In the election of 1800 the democratic republicans faced off against the federalists.

In the election of 1800 the federalist incumbent john adams ran against the rising republican thomas jefferson. Presidential electors were required to vote for two people for the offices of president and vice president. The winner of the election will determine which direction the country will move towards.

This project is designed for an american history class discussing the election between adams and jefferson in 1800. While the 1800 election was a re match of the 1796 election it ushered in a new type of american politics a two party republic and acrimonious campaigning behind the scenes and through the press on top of this the election pitted the larger than life adams and jefferson who were formerly close allies turned political enemies. The election of 1800 between john adams and thomas jefferson was an emotional and hard fought campaign.

Federalists attacked jefferson as an un christian deist whose sympathy for the french revolution would bring similar bloodshed and chaos to the united states. The students are to design a campaign poster supporting one of the two candidates during this famous election in history. Election of 1800 political parties project.

Election of 1800 campaign poster project the year is 1800. Either john adams and charles pickney for the federalist party or thomas jefferson and aaron burr for the democratic republican party. John adams in the first u s.