One of the most important rights we have in America is voting. We take part in a republic election every four years. U.S. citizens all around the nation vote for a leader that will lead the country for the next four years. This is a very important day in which the future of our republic is decided by the citizens of our country. The U.S. is a republic in which the citizens elect an appointed leader. Today we will travel back in time to the Election of 1824 and experience what went down back then for Election Day. There were two major candidates the ultimately could have won the election of 1824. The first one is the winner, John Q. Adams, who stole the victory right from under the nose of our second candidate,Andrew Jackson, who was sadly stripped of the presidency due to an unfair decision. Both of these candidates were Democratic-Republicans and they both deserved to be president. In the future they would both serve as presidents and would both face controversies in their presidency, but that's another story. The biggest part of this election is the "Corrupt Bargain of 1824" Which was in my opinion very unfair on so many levels. This resulted in an unfair election between the candidates. Andrew Jackson was thought to come out on top …show more content…
The corrupt bargain was about to start. The main reason the corrupt bargain took place is because none of the candidates had the majority vote. This resulted in the House of Representatives choosing the president of the United States. The Speaker of the House was Henry Clay. He was not only the Speaker, he was one of the candidates in the election of 1824. He had a lot of things against Andrew Jackson and had given some good debates against him. Just to see Andrew Jackson lose he picked John Q. Adams as president. This satisfied his "revenge", but it also promoted him. Because Henry Clay chose John Q. Adams, Adams promoted him to his Secretary of