A history of the United States for schools . for vice-presi-dent. There were 73 electoral votes for Jefferson, 73for Burr, 65 for Adams, etc., so that no name was high-est on the list, and the election had to be decided bythe House of Representatives. Some Federalists, will-ing to do anything to defeat Jefferson, intrigued infavor of Burr, but the House elected Jefferson only afortnight before Adamss term expired. The delayraised a fear that the nation might be left without anypresident. To prevent the recurrence of such anabsurd difficulty, the twelfth amendment to the Consti-tution was passe
A history of the United States for schools . for vice-presi-dent. There were 73 electoral votes for Jefferson, 73for Burr, 65 for Adams, etc., so that no name was high-est on the list, and the election had to be decided bythe House of Representatives. Some Federalists, will-ing to do anything to defeat Jefferson, intrigued infavor of Burr, but the House elected Jefferson only afortnight before Adamss term expired. The delayraised a fear that the nation might be left without anypresident. To prevent the recurrence of such anabsurd difficulty, the twelfth amendment to the Consti-tution was passed, in 1804. Since then, all candidatesfor the presidency have been named as such on theballot, and the candidates for the vice-presidency havebeen named separately. §110. THE PERIOD OF WEAKNESS. 279 Democratic-Republican: l8oi-l8og. 110. Louisiana, Oregon, and Tripoli. In 1800 the Federal government had been removed from Philadel-phia to Washington, and Jefferson was the first presidentinaugurated in the Federal city. The new president ft. THE CAPITOL AT was a very remarkable man. He was an accomplishedscholar, reading several languages with ease. ThomasHe was deeply interested in science and ^^philosophy. He was a daring horseman, a dead shotwith a rifle, and a skillful performer on the violin. He 1 This is the east front of the Capitol as it looks to-day. The oldnorth wing (just right of the centre) was finished in 1800, the old southwing in 1811. The building was destroyed by the British in 1814, andrebuilt in 1817-27. The two extreme wings were added in 1851-59, andthe great dome was finished in 1865, which was, by a curious coinci-dence, the year in which the perpetuity of the Union was fully decided. 28o THE FEDERAL UNION. Cm. XITT.
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