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USA 1800 Presidential Election

Fourth in a series of maps of the US States (and Territories) of each Presidential Election Year.

Two new Territories were added to this map. The Territory of Mississippi was split off from Georgia, however the State of Georgia continued to claim the lands given to Mississippi until 1802, thus the Mississippi Territory is included in this map as a puppet of Georgia.
The Northwest Territory was also split in half to create the Territory of Indiana.

The 1800 election was effectively a rematch of the 1796 election, being between now incumbent Federalist President John Adams of Massachusetts and incumbent Republican Vice President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

John Adams's running mate in 1796 was former U.S. Minister to France Charles C. Pinckney of South Carolina, and Jefferson's running mate was again former U.S. Senator from New York Aaron Burr.

The Sixteen States are divided into two alliances based off of which candidate received the most electoral votes for President in the 1800 election:

Thomas Jefferson, Republicans - PA, GA, MD, SC, VA, NY, NC, KY, TN
John Adams, Federalists - DE, NJ, CT, MA, NH, RI, VT

Four non-state territories which did not participate in the election are not part of any alliance:
Northwest Territory
District of Columbia
Mississippi Territory
Indiana Territory

I personally recommend disabling New Nation revolts in Godmode.
If you want to play with the presidential election result, as a primary factor, I would recommend disabling alliance changing in Godmode as well.

The number of cities that each state has is based off of how many seats in the House of Representatives were apportioned to the States following the Census of 1790.

DE: 1 City
PA: 13 Cities
NJ: 5 Cities
GA: 2 Cities
CT: 7 Cities
MA: 14 Cities
MD: 8 Cities
SC: 6 Cities
NH: 4 Cities
VA: 19 Cities
NY: 10 Cities
NC: 10 Cities
RI: 2 Cities
VT: 2 Cities
KY: 2 Cities
TN: 1 City

Non-State Territories get one city each for their capital. This is intentional and by design, since the territories tended to be lower population over very large areas. This makes those regions easy to capitulate, which was the desired effect.

Regarding the names of cities, the capitals of the states are based off of what the actual capitals of those states were in 1800 (a few did change again between 1796 and 1800).

For the remaining cities I did my best to find the most populous cities in those states at the time. This was very difficult for the southern States particularly, because of the incomplete census data from 1790 that does not list the Southern States populations by city or town, but by only by county, so I did my best. (Virginia and North Carolina were very frustrating).

If anyone sees this and can find better information about the cities with the largest populations in each state, please feel free to comment or inform me, and I will update this to have more accurate information in that regard.

The shape and terrain for this map is based off of the province map from Victoria 2. Likewise the shapes of the states are mostly drawn from that, with some modifications that I made to make them more accurate in some areas, and to reflect period-specific borders.

Size: 460x378 (173880px)
Nations: 20