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The Election of 1824:
The “Corrupt Bargain”
The Election of 1824:
The “Corrupt Bargain”
Popular Vote
Electoral
Vote
Andrew
Jackson
43%
99
J.Q. Adams
31%
32
William
Crawford
13%
41
Henry Clay
13%
37
Candidate
Election of 1824
• No candidate wins the majority
of the electoral vote
• Henry Clay throws his support
behind Adams in the House
• Adams wins election, Clay named
Sec. of State – “corrupt bargain”
• Adams serves four miserable
years
Adam’s Presidency
• Accomplished very little
• Extended the National Road
further to the West
• Tried to become involved with
Latin American affairs –
shutdown by opponents
Essential Question:
Champion of
the
“Common Man”?
OR
“King”
Andrew?
Voting Requirements
in the Early 19c
Voter Turnout: 1820
- 1860
3
3
3
Why Increased
White male suffrage increased
Democratization?
Party nominating committees.
Voters chose their state’s slate of Presidential
electors.
3
Spoils system.
3
Rise of Third Parties.
3
3
Popular campaigning (parades, rallies, floats,
etc.)
Two-party system returned in the 1832
election:
 Dem-Reps  Natl. Reps.(1828)  Whigs
(1832)  Republicans (1854)
 Democrats (1828)
First Known Painting
of Jackson, 1815
General Jackson
During the Seminole
Wars
The “Common
Man’s”
Presidential
Candidate
Jackson’s Opponents
in 1824
Henry Clay
[KY]
John Quincy Adams
[MA]
William H. Crawford
[GA]
John C. Calhoun
[SC]
Results of the 1824
Election
“Corrupt
Bargain?”
Rachel Jackson
Final Divorce Decree
Other Issues
• Coffin Handbills
– Criticized Jackson for court
martial's, execution of
deserters, massacres of
Indians, and dueling
• Adam’s Russia visits
– Gave an American servant girl
to the Czar
Jackson in Mourning
for His Wife
Dies two months before taking office
Blamed J.Q. Adams for her death
1828 Election
Results
The Center of
Population in the
Country Moves
WEST
The New “Jackson
Coalition”
3
The Planter Elite in the
South
3
People on the Frontier
3
State Politicians – spoils
3
Immigrants in the cities.
system
Jackson’s Faith
in the “Common Man”
3
3
3
Intense distrust of Eastern
“establishment,” monopolies, &
special privilege.
His heart & soul was with the
“plain folk.”
Belief that the common man was
capable of uncommon
achievements.
The Reign of “King
Mob”
Andrew Jackson as
President
The “Peggy Eaton Affair”
• Married to one of
Jackson’s cabinet
members (Eaton)
• Other wives didn’t
like her
• Jackson became
angry that wives
wouldn’t accept her
• Became angry at
Calhoun (VP) and
shifted loyalties to
Van Buren (Sec. of
State)
Described as “hottie??”
The “Peggy Eaton
Affair”
The Panic of 1837
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