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Kate Cummings

Why is Aaron Burr’s name not mentioned frequently in history if he won more votes in the Electoral College than Jefferson? What did he continue to do in his life?
General overview:
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/burr.html
Tried for treason:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/f...rr/burraccount.html

Please remember that a major part of your assignment is your evluation of your web site. Please use the guidelines at the following web site to help structure your evaluation: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Gu...ernet/Evaluate.html

Edited by author 03-14-2005 07:56 PM

What were some of the main reasons that John Adams was not re-elected?

http://americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blordervliberty2.htm
     This website is an article off of the about.com site. It is not a personal website but posts articles that come out of a magazine called “American History”. The article is explaining the Aurora, a newspaper that frequently bashed the federal government, and mostly John Adams. While first learning about John Adams was being made fun of by citizens, you only get one side of the story, and as a result you feel bad for Adams. This article shows that not only were the Republicans saying bad things about the Federalists, but the Federalists were just as negative towards the Republicans. As a result of the criticism towards the federal government, the Alien and Sedition acts were passed. Though Adams did not frame them or encourage the introduction of the acts, he supported them, and in return, lost votes from the citizens in his re-elections. These acts banned criticism of the government with the result of punishment. Not only were the journalists attacked by government, but individuals were too. This site explains incidents of people being persecuted for failing to obey the Alien and Sedition Acts and also shows the process of Adams being beat by Republicans and having the acts being taken away.

Question: We only hear about Thomas Jefferson and John Adams when we talk about the election of 1800. Kate already mentioned Burr but what about poor Pinckney? What was his story?

Search Engine: Google
URL:http://www.nndb.com/people/083/000049933/

Evaluation:
 This website is not someone's personal page but it is a commercial site. I think this site may have been more reliable if it was a .gov site but since it covers lots of differnet topics (not just governmental ones) I guess it couldn't be that. There is an agency who takes care of the page so it is not just one person and the copyright date is this year so it means its current. The page has no one sided information. It just has facts. There are links to other parts of the website with relevant information and all of the links work properly.

Tis a good website :D

Edited by author 03-14-2005 10:37 PM
Search Engine: www.dogpile.com
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr
Search Engine: Google
URL: http://www.juntosociety.com/vp/aaronburr.html
Question: When Jefferson was re-elected in 1805, why did he ask George Clinton to be his vice president, why didn’t he ask Aaron Burr?
* Aaron Burr had killed Alexander Hamilton wheras George Clinton had a good record with the U.S., he had been in the military.
The first website I looked at was really good and really helpful. It helped me understand background information (like when the website brought up Benedict Arnold you could click on a link on him and "get to know him").
The second URL that I visited, I'm not sure that I would reccomend it considering some of the links that were on the website such as, “Sell your Music Downloads!” and “Magic Learning System” plus “VA Loan Information” those were the downsides, but the information seemed okay.

Question: What were some main reasons for John Adams losing the election in 1800?

WEBSITES:
<http://www.americanpresident.org/history/j...y/printable.html>;
<http://www.ehistory.com/world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2399>;

Both of these websites help to explain why John Adams was not a popular man during the elections in 1800. His most known action while president was the passing of the Alien and Sedition Act, which was aimed at immigrants and those criticizing the government. Not to mention his own political party did not like him because they didn’t feel he supported their views enough. Although he kept the nation out of war with “competing European powers”, many people wanted to go to war and so did not approve of his decision. The first website I felt was not as biased as the second one and told both sides of John Adams while the second website only states his faults.

Question: We hear so much about Jefferson and not Burr when really Burr recieved the same electorial votes as he did, Jefferson did win, but it is almost as if Burr was not even there.

WEBSITES:
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/burr.html
Search Engine- www.Yahoo.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr
Search Engine- www.Yahoo.com

The first website was helping me understand who Burr was and his position and how he came to be. The second website gave me a better understanding about how he grew up and ran for office and was elected, etc. The source for this website is Wikipedia and its very straight forward in its facts, the first website was from USHISTORY.org which is also a very trustful website. Both of these websites give me a better ground foundation of knowing more about Burr and how he stood in the matter of politics. This is a very useful website in two ways one, informing and two, teaching new facts to people who are researching just like us. -- I recommend itt

At what year was it made a law that there only had to be one canidate per party?

http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_34_26.html

http://www.teachingpolitics.com/pdf/chrono...political%20parties'