The Election of 1928 for US President

1. Explain the ways that participation in political campaigns and elections in the United States changed between 1815 and 1840, and analyze forces and events that led to these changes.

With the emergence of new political parties and the growing support for the Republicans in the North, the campaign of 1860 was the major turning point in the political atmosphere.

But the election of 1828 was much different; from the beginning it was personal. Jackson was convinced that he was the winning candidate for president, and Adams' backers were horrified at the thought of a vulgar frontiersman in the White House. The year 1828 brought a complete and everlasting change to the way presidential elections were done. This was an extremely offensive election in which Adams' followers took the name National Republicans. They published in papers across the country this filthy and hateful report:

The 1920 presidential election proved to be memorable as well as historically significant for a number of reasons. This time period is surrounded by important events in American history. It falls directly after World War I, starts the roaring twenties, and leads the United States into the Great Depression. Warren G. Harding was elected president over all other candidates, with promises of life going back to normal conditions. At this point in time, American citizens were desperate for one thing: their old “normal” life. The election of 1920 was important because our nation had just gotten out of World War I, the vote ended in a landslide, and Harding changed the United States for the worse.

Supporting the Democratic Party they believed “government should adopt a hands-off attitude toward the economy and not award special favors to entrenched economic interests” (Foner, p. 380). These views were opposed by parties like the Whigs which believed that the American national government should be strengthened. Foner states “Whigs united behind the American system, believing that via a protective tariff, a national bank, and aid to internal improvements, the federal government could guide economic development” (Foner, p. 381). Jackson’s opposition to the stronger national government essentially created opposing sides to the development of America. Jackson’s strong stance on issues like the national banks and government is what accounted for hostilities that he stirred up among people with opposing views. Though these beliefs created hostility from opposing views they were also what created such a strong following from the Democratic

Jackson supporters fought back, attacking Adams as an elitist aristocrat who broke the Sabboth and gambled with a billiard table he bought for the White House. Due to this enormous interest and heated emotions that the two parties stirred up during the campaign, more than three times as many Americans cast ballots in 1828 as compared to four years earlier. Lastly, Adams and Jacksons backgrounds were drastically different. Adams (representing the Democratic Republican party) came from a privileged family. He studied various arts and could speak several different languages. He served in the United States Senate and as the U.S. ambassador to Prussia, the Netherlands, Russia, and Great Britain. Jackson (representing the Democratic Party) on the other hand was Ill schooled and hardly able to learn the basics of spelling and grammar. He went from a frontier congressman, to senator, to state militia general, and a territorial

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.

The Jacksonian democracy of the 1820s-1830s is often associated with an expansion of the political influence, economic opportunities, and social equality available to “the common man,” a concept of the masses which President Andrew Jackson and his newly founded Democratic party came to represent. The new administration certainly saw gains for the majority; namely, public participation in government increased to unprecedented levels, and several economic decisions were made to favor the people over monopolies. Beginning with their exaggerated portrayal of the “corrupt” 1824 election however, the Jacksonian democrats also left a legacy of substantial miscalculations

Despite the outcome I fully believe that the election of 1828 did in fact, create a democratic revolt of the people because of the social and political backlash that the election created. The election of Andrew Jackson as President in 1828 marked the beginning of an era known as Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man. The changes in politics during Jackson's presidency provided various social and economic changes.

The Jacksonian Democratic Party and the Whig Party each, exemplified different beliefs on the role of the federal government in the economy and towards westward expansion in the 1830s and 1840s. However, the Jacksonian, laissez faire supporting Democrats and the economic nationalistic Whig party shared almost no beliefs except for the removal of American Indians in the areas their supporters wished to settle. The lack of similarities is because the Whigs formed their own party to oppose President Jackson’s strong-armed leadership style and policies which earned him the nickname “King Andrew.” The Jacksonian Democratic Party evolved out of the Democratic-Republican Party in the early 1800s, the core of its membership was composed of farmers, immigrants, and white Southerners. The Whigs formed in 1834 and lasted for 20 years, they were the major political party that opposed Andrew Jackson. The Whigs were created based upon the Federalist beliefs in a strong federal government and adopted many Federalist and National Republican policy ideas, including federal funding for internal improvements, a central bank, and high tariffs to protect the growth of manufacturing enterprises. Overall, the Jacksonian Democratic agrarian Party and the industrialization supporting Whig Party had different beliefs toward the role of the federal government in the economy and towards westward expansion.

The new Whig party formed because of Jackson’s abuse of power as president. They called him King Andrew I. They attracted other groups that had been alienated by Jackson.

The Second American Party System was between the Democrats and the Whigs. The Whigs were organized to oppose Andrew Jackson in the early 1830s. The Whigs were the heir to Federalism, favoring a strong national government in the economy like the American System and supported active social reform. Its power was in the North and Old Northwest, voters who would benefit from increased commercialization. The Whigs wanted to

This year is one of the most important years in America’s history, for it is the time to declare who will be our next president. Current president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is running for a third term, and if he wins he will be the first ever president to be elected for three consecutive terms. However, his opponent is an unlikely candidate who arose from the Republican party and that is Wendell Willkie. Although this is an important race, it is shadowed by the war being fought in Europe between the Allies and Axis Powers. Roosevelt wanted to keep the United States isolated from the war, but Willkie wanted the States to join the war to assist Britain and other allies.

They called themselves National Republicans. The others stood for states' rights, tariffs that were for revenue only, and an independent treasury. They took the name Democrats and elected Andrew Jackson to the Presidency in 1828 and 1832. Those who opposed Jackson questioned his dissolution of the Bank of the United States, his internal improvement policies, his stand against South Carolina during the nullification crisis, and his policies on rotation in office and the spoils system. By the election of 1836 the National Republicans and others opposed to Jackson's policies had come together to form a new party, the Whigs. Since Jackson believed in a strong executive

The party of Jackson is today's Democratic Party. By the election of 1836 the National Republicans and other anti-Jacksonians had merged to form a new party, the Whigs. They lost to the Democrats that year, but in 1840 they succeeded in getting William Henry Harrison elected President. In 1844 the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, lost to James Polk, but in the next election Zachary Taylor won for the Whigs. This seemed to be a time of uncertainty in political direction.