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Describe the Election of 1800. Why did Jefferson call it a peaceful revolution?

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Vice president Thomas Jefferson defeated president John Adams. It was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System.
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