Which of the following statements about the election of 1796 are true? Check all of the boxes that apply.

John Adams won the 1796 election and became the second president of the United States, so A is true. The election was the first in which candidates openly ran as members of political parties, making C true. Adams was a Federalist, not a Democratic-Republican, and George Washington had not belonged to a political party, so the election did not transfer power from one party to another.

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