John Adams - PBS, "The American President".
Aaron Burr Jr. - Alfa-Informatica
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney – "From Revolution to Reconstruction," University of Groningen Humanities Computing.
CALENDAR FOR YEAR 1801 - Timeanddate.com
LINKS TO GENERAL RESOURCES AND BACKGROUND
The Electoral College - origins and evolution by the Jackson County (MO) Election Board. - Jackson County Election Board.
The House Selects a President -
From the Treasures of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration.
Election Results from 1789 to 2000 - presidentelect.org by James R. Whitson.
LINKS FOR TEACHERS
The Election of 1800: A Critical Moment in the History of American Constitutional Democracy
by William W. Nixon; ERIC Clearinghouse, Bloomington IN.
Boisterous Sea of Liberty An Educator's Guide
Part 5: The Age of Revolution, 1765-1825; Oxford University Press.
The Inaugural Classroom
Complete lesson plan from PBS.
Farmingdale Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan by Farmingdale, NY Public Schools
TEACHERS, PLEASE, let us know if your special class project yields some publishable essays! We'll post them here!
SPECIAL EDITION: ELECTION 1800!
Larger version of this map of Electoral Votes in 1800 located at Images of American History: Teaching Politics, published by William J. Ball. According to James Rogers Sharp:
"From December 1800 until late February 1801, when the election was finally decided in the House of Representatives, the country teetered at the brink of disintegration. The atmosphere was feverish with tension, fear, and confusion. Federalists and Republicans were willing to believe that their opponents were capable of virtually any actions, no matter how treacherous or violent, in order to gain or retain power. Rumors swept Washington, D.C., which had just become the nation's capital in June of 1800, and the various state capitals about Federalist plots to deny Jefferson the presidency by a usurpation of power or by throwing support to Burr. Talk was rife about militias arming, a possible civil war, and the breakup of the union. There were even reports that Jefferson would be assassinated."
American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)