Answer: By the election of 1800, the nation's two parties had taken more definite shape. The Presidential race was hotly contested between Federalist President, John Adams, and Democratic-Republicans, Thomas Jefferson. It marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties in American history.
<u>The neoclassical style that was given during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and was characterized by the grandeur of scale and </u><u>the simplicity</u><u> of geometric shapes.</u> The taste for simplicity represented a general reaction to the excesses of the Rococo style.
