Why Did Henry Clay Win The Election Of 1824

The Election of 1824 was a divided one, as the candidates, Jackson, Adams, Crawford, nor Clay won the majority of the popular vote although Andrew Jackson received the most votes, electoral and popular. Due to the 12th amendment, the House of Representatives were given the right to choose between the three candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes. Since Henry Clay got the least amount of votes, he was not considered. Although Clay was out of the running, he supported Adams, due to his rivalry with Jackson. With Clay’s support, Adams was able to win the Election of 1824. This angered Jackson, and in 1828, he decided to run again because he believed he was robbed. He finally won the election, and the Jacksonian Era (1828 - 1850),

This national bank, created in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton, was to handle the war debt accumulated from the American Revolution. Jackson opposed this institution because he believed that it gave the federal government too much control. He also believed that this institution catered to the rich. Jackson was representative of the average American, and he wanted to give power to the people, not just the aristocratic population. Henry Clay proposed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States in 1832, and naturally Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill. He set up “pet banks” in order to actively try to take the bank down. It took many years for Jackson to successfully dismantle the Bank of the United States, and in 1833 he finally destroyed it. Today, a bank where the federal government is controlling it is non-existent. This major change is due to Andrew Jackson’s persistence in successfully dismantling the institution. Overall, the elimination of the National Bank marked a turning point in American political life because it gave the Federal government less power and more power to the

South Carolina believed they had the right to declare which federal laws were illegal. Jackson strongly believed that in giving states the right to declare which federal laws were illegal would cause chaos. The Tariff of 1828 or the “Tariff of Abominations,” was passed in order to protect the economy/industry of the North by increasing the price of European goods. With this tariff in place, Southerners were forced to look inward for business. Denied the right to decide which federal laws are illegal, South Carolina threatened secession. Jackson, infuriated with South Carolina for threatening to break the union, compromised by making the tariff lower. Jackson marked a turning point in American political life because he prevented a break in the union and set an example for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln used Jackson’s techniques in dealing with secession himself. As Jackson based his attack on democratic grounds, Lincoln based his attack on Democratic grounds as