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    A fight broke out on the congressional floor in 1798 between Democratic-Republican Matthew Lyon and Federalist Roger Griswold. A cartoon was created satirizing the event, showing a fight between a lawyer, defendant, prosecutor, and attorney. This incident occurred just two years before the 1800 election and likely heightened tensions between the two parties, as they were already spreading propaganda about each other in anticipation of the upcoming vote.

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    This took place in 1798, many speculations about what is happening here.

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    A fight broke out on the congressional floor in 1798 between Democratic-Republican Matthew Lyon and Federalist Roger Griswold. A cartoon was created satirizing the event, showing a fight between a lawyer, defendant, prosecutor, and attorney. This incident occurred just two years before the 1800 election and likely heightened tensions between the two parties, as they were already spreading propaganda about each other in anticipation of the upcoming vote.

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    A fight broke out on the congressional floor in 1798 between Democratic-Republican Matthew Lyon and Federalist Roger Griswold. A cartoon was created satirizing the event, showing a fight between a lawyer, defendant, prosecutor, and attorney. This incident occurred just two years before the 1800 election and likely heightened tensions between the two parties, as they were already spreading propaganda about each other in anticipation of the upcoming vote.

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    Fight in Congress

    Directions: Below is a cartoon created in reference to a fight that broke out on the
    congress floor in 1798 between Democratic-Republican Matthew Lyon (VT) and Federalist
    Roger Griswold (CT). Please analyze the cartoon and answer the corresponding
    questions.

    Questions:

    1) What is the cartoon making fun of or satirizing? How can you tell? This cartoon
    is most likely imposing that there was some unfair justice. I can tell because it
    seems that a fight possibly broke out between the lawyer, defendant, prosecutor,
    and maybe an attorney.

    2) The event occurred just two years before the Election of 1800. How could this
    set the stage for the rising tensions related to the Election? Explain. This picture
    could’ve set tensions rising before the election because, before the election even
    started there were tons of debates about Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams,
    and they were spreading propaganda about the other person. So a lot of other
    people had their opinions about that too. So that is probably the most probable
    cause to what happened in the picture.

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