98% of Tennessee’s popular vote. John Adams carried 94% of New Hampshire’s vote (ushistory.org). Neither one of the candidates had a national appeal and they were both gone on the ballot in at least one state. John Adams had a secret meeting with Henry Clay before the election and got his support and that’s what people say led him to win the election (ushistory.org). He won over Western representatives whose states had voted for Jackson and even promised the votes of his home state Kentucky, that didn’t cast even one vote for John Adams (debate.org).
The Corrupt Bargain The election of 1824 was undoubtedly unique, but it seems it may have been the result of a corrupt bargain that John Quincy Adams himself had set up. The election consisted of four different candidates; William Crawford from Georgia, Speaker of the House of Representatives Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams from, and Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Jackson had a lot of support from the voters because of his role in the battle of New Orleans.
Jackson’s voting policies were democratic because they increased the power of the people. In Document 1, the table shows that after Jackson was elected, presidential electors were chosen more and more by the people instead of the legislature. By 1828, the ratio of legislature to people was 2:10. By 1832 and 1836, the ratio changed to 1:11. In line with Document 2, Daniel Webster said that he never saw anything like it, meaning he saw many poor farmers celebrating instead of rich upper class men.
During his two terms in office, President Jackson would not only implement a series of policies that drastically expanded slavery, but he would also create a pro-slavery sentiment in America that would reverberate for many generations after his final term in office. In the first part of this essay, I will introduce the election of 1828. In the second part of this essay, I will attempt to explain why Andrew Jackson's arrival to the presidential Mansion had such a profound effect on Southern secession. The election of 1824 was a pivotal moment in American history.
Politics during the 1820-1830's became very critical because it gave the common man, specifically a white male, universal suffrage and it was the start of what could be labeled as "corrupt politics". It can be viewed from the year of 1824, was when John Quincy Adams was elected President due to Adams and Andrew Jackson being neck and neck with their electoral votes. However, by the 12th Amendment, the top three electoral votes would be voted upon the House of Representatives and the majority would be elected president. The House of Reps. have voted for Adams and Jackson was infuriated. Jackson had felt that the people's choice had been left out of consideration and the vote was leaned towards more to the favored politicians in Washington
This led to many debates in congress and posed a threat to the continuation of slavery in America. The constitution of 1824 was also a topic of political debates. This constitution gave the president increased power and political roles. Similarly the presidential election of 1828 was the first to have such unrestrained and damaging mudslinging. This election sets the example of what all elections try to avoid to this day.
There were new methods of campaigning that were introduced by Adams and Jackson in the Elections of 1824 and 1828. For the Election of 1824 they was 3 people running for president, they were Henry Clay of Kentucky, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, and John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts. Jackson won 99 electoral votes, giving him a plurality, or largest single share. But according to 10-1 in paragraph 2, sentence 4, it states,"Under the Twelfth Amendment, when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives selects the president. " During the House prepared to vote, Clay and Adams made an agreement that Clay would use his influence as Speaker of the House to defeat Jackson.
When the year of 1807 came around, the way that America elected a president changed. In previous elections, only the rich men were able to vote which as a result whoever promised more the wealth was elected for president. When the common man was able to vote in 1807, the type of candidate to win the election change. As seen in the election of 1828 the person who was more relatable to the people, won because the common man was able to vote and so they used that opportunity and elected whoever they thought was going to help them. Overall the people preferred Jackson over Adams because Jackson was able to relate to the people better, and because he was a symbol of the American dream.
Andrew Jackson won the important Electoral College vote by ninety-nine votes, however, John Quincy Adams, who only got eighty-four Electoral College votes, won the presidency. Even though Jackson got the most votes, it was only forty-three percent, and due to it not being the majority, the House of Representatives chose the winner out of the two of them. Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, had also ran for president, coming in third it the Electoral College vote. He detested Jackson, and it was because of this that Adams won the election. He forged an Ohio Valley-New England Coalition that secured John Quincy Adam’s place in the White House.
The founders of the United States did their best to create a government that would not allow erroneous decisions to greatly harm the nation. They set a percent of presidents being politically sound and well-known; their beliefs for how the nation should be handled were essential to their campaign. President Andrew Jackson, however, did not follow this system, instead winning primarily by his personality and popularity amongst the common American. While his actions in office often appeared to be for the people, most had a hidden selfish side to them that he easily covered up. With the election of 1828, Jackson radically changed American politics, focusing them more on public appearance and personal character than on intelligence and political views, making personality just as, if not more important than the actual politics of a political term.
In the United States presidential election of 1828 John Quincy Adams, the current president and member of the National Republican Party, was running for re-election against Andrew Jackson, a former Democratic-Republican turned Democrat. This election was a very personal one, as Jackson and Adams had a tense past. Jackson had also run against Adams four years earlier in 1824, and though he had won the plurality of the popular vote and the electoral college, he lost the contingent election in the House of Representatives (Hogan, Campaigns and Elections, 2017). After this loss Jackson and his supporters accused Adams of having a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay, in which Clay helped Adams win the contingent election in return for a position
The election of 1796, John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson. The former won by only 3 single electoral college votes. In a highly competitive, controversial race filled with fake smiles and harsh glares, those votes made all the difference in the world to these two men and their running mates. Because George Washington refused a second term, political parties took root when election time came around. No one knew that this election in the early stages of Americas development would define the future of the United States of America.
Jackson portrayed himself as the “common man” president and connected with the electors. This was a pretty messy election because Jackson and Clay have been enemies for years. During the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson accuses Henry Clay of killing his wife. John Quincey Adams was running against Jackson and major accusations were being made about both running mates. Andrew Jackson claimed that Adams used tax payer money to buy gambling tools.
The Electoral College had an interesting part in the election of 1824. By this time, the Federalist Party was no longer, which meant the United States was being dominated by the Democratic-Republicans, who led the one party system. There were four candidates running for President in the election of 1824. These candidates were Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson was the winner according to the Electoral College, with ninety-nine votes.
In 1824 he ran for president, and although he won the popular vote, he lost the electoral vote, thus losing the election. However, in 1828 he ran again, and won in a landslide in both the electoral and popular votes. During his presidency, he expanded the electorate, creating suffrage for all white men, regardless of wealth or property. This was the first step in giving all Americans the opportunity to vote. Expanding suffrage for white men not only began expansion of suffrage, but also sparked the interest of more people within politics, and created the idea of parties and party loyalty.
