Martin Van Buren's Contributions

These are just a few examples of how Jackson's past may have contributed greatly to his presidency; he had hatred towards many rivals and not to mention the British. Another soon to be rival on Jackson's list was John Quincy Adams; this was because in the election of 1824, Adams and Henry Clay made what Jackson called "a corrupt bargain" And this caused Jackson to lose the 1824 election which he believed he had rightfully earned.

Andrew Jackson’s presidency has been viewed in two different ways. He has been viewed as a hero to the common man or as a tyrant who abused his power as president. There are plenty of examples to support both sides, however when he was supporting the common man or being a tyrant, he was doing what he felt would benefit the nation as a whole. The election of 1824 was not good one for Jackson. He won the popular vote, but did not have enough electoral votes. In the end, the House of Representatives had to decide the winner out of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford. Henry Clay did not want Jackson to be President, so he threw his support to Adams. Which resulted in Adams being elected the sixth president of the

Zachary Taylor, elected in 1849, only served sixteen months in office as president of the United States. Zachary Taylor was a commemorated war general for his roles within the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, Seminole Wars, and the Mexican War. Yet, it was only after the Mexican War did he get public recognition and received a nomination by the Whig Party for president. Taylor never officially finished his education and never seemed to particularly care for politics. Besides his own election, he had never voted and he did not even vote for himself. Taylor was a peculiar candidate, he had no political experience whatsoever and to be potentially be a president shocked many. Fortunately for him, former president Martin Van Buren caused a split of votes between himself and Lewis Cass. He also happened to be slave owner, which appealed to many Southerners. It wasn’t until he was elected that his ideals were revealed. Due to his time with the army, he had a strong nationalist ideology as his main goal was to preserve the unity of the Union. Taylor supported slavery, yet the idea of expanding slavery was not apart of his agenda.

If Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson faced off, many would argue over which president was better leader and who was more effective. Jackson and Jefferson have more differences among them then they have alike, but they both stood in their beliefs and completed major events that helped with the writings of America’s history. If Jefferson or Jackson had an idea in mind that needed to be completed, they were very effective to get that job done in an efficient time. Both presidents held professions before office and out of the eight years both presidents held in office, many acts were created which aided both men to accomplish the ideas they had. Jackson’s daily life and attitude was considerably different compared to Jefferson but that didn 't stop him from getting his job done. Over all Jefferson was the better president and was more efficient thought his works.

Due to this, many voters from New England (north) voted for John Quincy Adams, while nearly everybody from the south and west voted for Andrew Jackson. In the end, Jackson easily won the election.

John Quincy Adams may have been the greatest U.S. secretary of state, but he was not one of the greatest presidents. He was really a minority president, chosen by the House of Representatives in preference to Andrew Jackson and William H. Crawford following the inconclusive one-party ELECTION of 1824. In the popular contest Jackson had received the greatest number of votes both at the polls and in the state ELECTORAL COLLEGES, but lacked a constitutional majority. Henry Clay, one of the four candidates in 1824, threw his support to Adams in the House in February 1825, after secret conferences between the two, thus electing Adams on the first ballot. The supporters of Jackson and Crawford immediately cried "corrupt bargain": Clay had put Adams

A democratic society was on the rise and many Americans believed in equality but ignored enslaved African Americans. Government moved out of the houses of rich men and into the houses of the middle and lower- classes; education improved, suffrage laws were enacted, and newspapers were increasingly circulated. The political parties greatly changed; third parties began to rise, four candidates were chosen for one party, and Andrew Jackson lost his first election to John Adams. Adams lost his reelection to Jackson; both of whom created smear campaigns for each other, this improved voter turnout. Jackson represented the common man, throughout his presidency he served

The “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824 – Henry Clay, speaker of the house opposed Andrew Jackson and supported John Quincy Adams. When it was time to vote, John Quincy Adams got the majority even though Jackson had the popular vote. Jackson believed Adams and Clay struck a deal that Adams would win in return for Clay becoming Secretary of State.

Adams only had a one year term as president, but before he was president he was Washington’s vice president. After his one year term he moved to Massachusetts, and he lost his reelection to his vice president Thomas Jefferson. Adams was one of the men that signed the Declaration of Independence. Adams was one of the only president of the first five to not own any slaves. He was against slavery, but he was also against abolition. He didn’t enjoy the ways the abolitionist dealt with most things, he thought it was chaotic and threatening.

Leading up to the 1828 election, Andrew Jackson began defaming the personal character of his opponents as other Whigs held cookouts and barbeques to bring in more voters. John Quinsy Adams was not a president for the people, because he was too busy worrying about his history as president. He was too wrapped up in the idea of internal affairs rather than worrying about the matters of the people. The biggest difference between Jackson and Adams was Jackson’s ability to understand the needs of the people.

Finally, in 1828 Andrew Jackson became president. Andrew Jackson claimed he was for the people and had their best interest at heart, but he was an activist in slave-owning and never considered Native Americans as Americans. The question that remains today is "How democratic was Andrew Jackson". Andrew Jackson as seen through his actions in history was a dictator rather than a democrat.

     John Quincy Adams, the son of former president John Adams, had a very rich political background prior to the election of 1824. In 1803, he was elected to the senate. He spent a few years in the senate, and then in 1809, James Madison appointed Adams his minister to St. Petersburg. He helped to bring about the end of The War of 1812 by help negotiate the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. After the war was over he became the minister to London in 1815. Then in 1817, James Monroe appointed Adams his secretary of state.5 Adams supported protective tariffs and federal programs that were intended for internal improvements. He was also had a much more formal manner than the other candidates.6

In the Election of 1848, Martin Van Buren ran his campaign on abolitionism and as the Free Soil Parties candidate. Lewis Cass, a Democrat, ran on the idea of compromise within the colonies and really strived to get an equal balance between both the North and the South. But in the end, a Southerner who ran under the Whig party, Zachary Taylor, ended up winning the election. This was one of the first elections with the organized Free Soil party and was an important piece in why the two party system would eventually crash and eventually lead to the Union falling apart in 1861.

Entering the presidential election of 1844, Polk was the leader for the Democratic nomination for vice president. Both, Martin Van Buren for the Democrats and Henry Clay for the Whigs, would be presidential candidates. They

Andrew Jackson, Democratic-Republican, was born in North Carolina 1776 and passed away in 1794. Jackson’s occupation was a lawyer and a soldier. He was the only president who accommodated in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.His slogan was “Andrew Jackson, Hero of the Battle of New Orleans”. John Quincy Adams, Democratic-Republican,