A New Age in Politics What was the dispute over the election of 1824? What was President Adams unpopular?

A New Age in Politics

What was the dispute over the election of 1824?

What was President Adams unpopular?

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Spirit of Equality

• Alexis de Tocqueville from France came to study America prison systems– Impressed by our democracy– Wrote Democracy in America

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Spirit of Equality

• Suffrage: the right to vote

• White males with property– Changed to any white male over 21

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Sprit of Equality

• Women, natives, and majority of African Americans didn’t have right to vote

Election of 1824

• John Quincy Adams: New England

• Henry Clay: West

• Andrew Jackson: West

• William Crawford:South

Election of 1824

• John Quincy Adams: National Republican– Son of second Prez– Graduate at Harvard– Served as secretary of state

during war of 1812– Very intelligent– High morals– Didn’t relate well to people

• Came off hard and cold

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Election of 1824

• Henry Clay– Speaker of the House– Skillful negotiator– Good compromiser– However not as popular as

Jackson

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Election of 1824

• Andrew Jackson– Hero of New Orleans– Old Hickory: “tough as

hickory”– Slave owner– Born in log cabin to

poor farming parents

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Who won?

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Election of 1824

• No clear winner in election of 1824– Not candidate won a majority of electoral votes:

more than half• Granted Jackson got the majority of popular of votes

– Had to pick a president from top 3 choices• Clay was 4th he urged congress to pick Adams• Jackson was mad he wasn’t picked

– “corrupt bargaining”– Hurt Adam’s effort to unify the nation

Unpopular President

• Many people unhappy about election and took it out on Adams

• Wanted federal government to promote economic growth– Wanted internal improvements– Suggested building a national university– Most Americans didn’t wanted to spend

there money on those things

Election of 1828

• Andrew Jackson wins easily• Slander in the campaign “corrupt

bargain”– Adams was an aristocrat:upper class– Warned he was a dictator like Napoleon

Bonaparte

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Jacksonian Democracy

• Shift political power to west

New Political Parties

• Whigs– Was national Republicans– Strong federal government

• Supported tariffs

• Democrats– Was Democratic Republicans– Wanted a weak government

• Opposed tariffs, government spending,

New Political Parties• Whigs

– Tended to favor morals legislation, e.g. alcohol and Sunday work

– Supporters• Eastern business • southern planters support• Protestants

• Democrats– Skeptical about morals legislation, e.g., banning

alcohol and Sunday work– Supporters

• Frontier farmers• City workers• Catholic immigrants

New Political parties

• Political parties developed a democratic way to choose their candidates so the vote wouldn’t be split– Caucus: informal meeting to pick

presidential candidate• What’s the difference between caucus and

primary?

– Nominating convention: delegates from states choose president canidate

• History Channel - The Presidents(America), Part 2, 1825-1849(part 1/5)

Work Cited

• http://faithmaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/andrew_jackson.jpeg

• http://www.nndb.com/people/370/000026292/jqa.jpg

• http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/Tocqueville.htm

• http://avhs-apush.wikispaces.com/file/view/Henry_Clay.jpg/44065919/Henry_Clay.jpg

• http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/AndrewJackson(1).jpg