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Mr. Pop.

That's the only thing we have to fear is feel itself. Four score and seven years ago.

When in the course of human events.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America.

There's the United States of America.

The United States' election of 1800 was the fourth time Americans had gone to the polls to elect their head of state.

It was held from Friday, October 31st to Wednesday, December the 3rd.

It is sometimes referred to as the Revolution of 1800.

The election saw Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeat President John Adams.

It was a realigning election.

It ushered in a generation of Democratic Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party.

Today I'm joined by Adam Van Ami and Matt Martin to discuss the most peaceful transfer of power and the most rancorous of elections. Hello, gentlemen. How are we? Good. How you doing? Hello, great here. We're calling this a peaceful transfer of power? Well, it was, wasn't it? There was no call to arms. Oh, okay. Yeah. If that's our barometer, I guess that's what we'll go off of.

Adam, could you tell us about the America of 1800?

So the America of 1800 was very agrarian. It was a lot of a lot of farming lifestyle.

This is very much pre-industrial revolution.

The move to the cities haven't happened yet.

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