The Corrupt Bargain

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:

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.

During the election of 1824, there were five candidates for the president. The election of 1824 was the fall of the Federalist Party that never would rise to power again. All the candidates were Democratic-Republican, but that didn’t seem to weigh heavily on the outcome of the election of 1824. The two front runners were John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson that would be decided by the House of Representatives because of the Twelve Amendment to the Constitution states the House will decide by majority vote between the two candidates when there is no majority of the electoral votes. As a result of the first ballot in the House of Representatives in voting for a president, John Quincy Adams emerged victorious at the election of 1824.

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.

-Jackson and his supporters and followers are so mad and accused Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams “Corrupt Bargain” (Henry Clay convinced his followers to vote for John Quincy Adams as President, and as result, John Quincy Adams agreed to appoint Henry Clay as secretary of state and get in to the Office.)

Henry Clay was the first Speaker of the House that really helped to establish the position and increase the power. Clay served three terms as Speaker of the House and in those years demonstrated how his tactics were effective as well as successful. Henry Clay was personable, and his youth and assertiveness made him a popular choice for Speaker. Clay used his position to place his allies in important committees to achieve these goals. As Clay gained clout in the House of Representatives, he was able to introduce his American System and ideas founded in the American Colonization Society. Henry Clay’s greatest accomplishment as Speaker of the House was the drafting of the Missouri Compromise, which gained him the title of the Great

It is clear that the presidential election in 1820 was vastly different than that of 1824. In 1824, the formation of more evident political parties diversified the national political opinion. In 1820, James Monroe won every electoral vote aside from one. In 1824, Andrew Jackson had 15 more electoral votes than did John Quincy Adams. Despite this, Adams won the presidency through the

In the election he and Henry Clay lost to Adams. But at the election of 1828 Adams had ran for re-election but he had lost to Andrew

Henry Clay, who had left retirement and was filling in as a congressperson from Kentucky, set up together a gathering of five separate bills as an "omnibus bill" which wound up noticeably known as the Compromise of 1850. Senator Henry Clay was the “compromise” of the whole situation. He was best known as “the Great Compromiser” for working out the Missouri Compromise. He was ill and sick but also wanted to search for an agreement through the South and North. Before he became a senator he was a lawyer. He was also a young statesman. In 1811 he was elected House of Representatives. He eventually served as the Speaker of the House.

Perhaps the three most influential men in the pre-Civil War era were Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. These men all died nearly a decade before the civil war began, but they didn’t know how much they would effect it. States’ rights was a very controversial issue, and one which had strong opposition and radical proposals coming from both sides. John C. Calhoun was in favor of giving states the power to nullify laws that they saw unconstitutional, and he presented this theory in his “Doctrine of Nullification”. Daniel Webster strongly disagreed with this proposal and showed this by giving powerful support to President Jackson in resisting the attempt by South Carolina to nullify the ‘tariff of abominations’, as they called

Political Evolution After the American Revolution, America entered a phase known as the Age of Jefferson, which most considered as a rebirth. “ Jefferson’s political beliefs valued liberty over order, suspicious of centralized power, (…) supported the Constitution but wary of the new powered created by it.” Jefferson’s views formatted America, in which he also enforced the promotion of agriculture, demotion of manufacture, and exile of Native Americans. However, as the 1820’s approached, controversy and a division between political opinions struck, while simultaneously, America was industrially evolving.

The election of 1824 introduced to the history of the United States what would be called the "Corrupt Bargain". After none of the candidates had been elected, only three of the four candidates were going to have another chance to become president. When John Adams realized that he could not stand a chance against Andrew Jackson, he proposed to Henry Clay, who had been eliminated from the list, with an offer that Henry Clay could not resist. The plan was for Henry Clay to use his influence inside the house to support John Adams in becoming president. Adams would make Henry Clay secretary of state. Henry Clay knew that being secretary of state would eventually lead to becoming the president, so he could not resist the offer. With the help of Henry

But, Jackson was not always happy with them either. This was when the nullification crisis was brought along with Nicholas Biddle and the bank. For the bank, many people liked it but plenty did not. People who liked the bank appreciated that it was a safe place for money, it made loans to businesses, and it was a stable currency. People who disliked the bank believed the wealthy stood for unfair privilege and opposed the way the the bank restricted loans made by state banks. Republicans and business people liked the bank but Andrew Jackson, farmers, southerners, democrats, and westerners were opposed to it. Jackson disliked Nicholas Biddle because of the fact he did favors for the wealthy. So, knowing Jackson came from a non wealthy family, he thought this was unfair. When Biddle renewed the bank’s charter early, Jackson then decided to veto the bill. Next, was the Nullification Crisis. This was when the southerners thought the tariff was unfair, while John C. Calhoun said states could null or get rid of law. If you were for nullification this meant that you believed states have the right to nullify or cancel a federal law. If you were against nullification, you believed the federal government is more powerful than the states and that we must keep the union together. People that were for nullification was John C. Calhoun and the South. People who were against this were Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, and the North.

Andrew Jackson, a Senator from Tennessee and military hero, drew Western support from Clay despite the fact that his political views were not well-known

The election of 1824 was the first time a candidate who had not one the popular vote was named the next president. This election was especially unusual because John Quincy Adams also failed to secure the majority of the electoral votes. The 6th president of the United States, a new democracy that prides itself on running a government for the people by the people, was a man who was neither decided by