Creating the United States

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After a vicious campaign and a polarizing election that was not resolved until February 17, 1801, after thirty-six ballots in the House of Representatives, President Thomas Jefferson delivered a soothing and unifying message in his first inaugural address. After appealing to an overruling Providence to protect the new Republic, Jefferson uttered his now-classic line: We are all republicans, we are all federalists.
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