Adams VP was Thomas Jefferson, who ended up running against him in the election of 1800. Adams lost to Jefferson, explaining the bitter statement.
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on November 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split, particularly over slavery, and in the months following Lincoln’s election (and before his inauguration in March 1861) seven Southern states, led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War (1861–65).
The correct answer is D) generally harsh and abusive to workers
Answer: It looks like it represents an ongoing want or need for progress and evolution in technology, the older electronics crushed at the bottom and the person running in a wheel like a test animal can represent how this way of evolution is almost corrupting.