The election of 1824 is one of the most unique and interesting elections in American history. The four candidates in the election were William Crawford, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. They were all from the Jacksonian Republican Party.
William H. Crawford was very experienced in politics. Before running for president in 1824, he was James Monroe’s secretary of war and he was also secretary of treasury under Monroe and James Madison. He also served in congress as an U.S. Senator from Georgia. He was a minister to France from 1813 thru 1815. Prior to the election of 1824, Crawford had a stroke and was nearly blinded. Despite his health, the Congressional caucuses selected Crawford for their
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After leaving the House, he served in the Senate. In the war of 1812, Jackson became one the major generals of the war and he became the national hero of the war when he defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans. After this battle people nationwide started calling him “Old Hickory.”3 Jackson said his main concern if he was president would be the internal improvements to the nation to guarantee national defense and he claimed adherence to a “judicious tariff.”4
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
As for the election, Andrew Jackson had the most popular votes with 153,544. John Quincy Adams came in second with 108,740. Coming in third and fourth respectively were William Crawford and Henry Clay. Crawford had 46,618 votes and Clay had 47,136.
The election of 1800 was a fight between the democratic-republicans and the federalists party for presidency. It also became the first time in American History where there was a peaceful shift in the political party, from the federalists party to the democratic-republicans party (Jeffersonians). The election of 1800 consists of five candidates, each believing that victory by the other side would ruin their nation. The candidates were, Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson in the democratic-republican party, and John Adams, Charles Pinckney, and John Jay in the federalist party;
Although Adams and his supporters tried there hardest to corrupt Jackson's chances at becoming president, Jackson received three times the amount of electoral votes that Adams did, thus making him the President of the United States.
The election of 1824 had failed to determine President James Monroe's successor because the electoral ballots were split among four candidates, none of whom had a majority. According to the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, the House of Representatives was required to select the chief executive from among the three men with the highest electoral count. In 1824 these three included the Senator from Tennessee, Andrew Jackson, who had 99 electoral votes; the Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, with 84 electoral votes; and the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Crawford, who received 41 electoral votes. Henry Clay, who was the fourth candidate, was eliminated since this total electoral count reached only 37 votes. Jackson also took a commanding 40,000 popular vote lead over the second highest candidate, John Adams.
IN the Election of 1828 thier was a big emphasis on charecter. The country had just gone through the panic of 1819 and had just recovered. The election of 1828 was the first presidential contest where popular votes would determine thr outcome. The voters, not the state legislators chose the electors. Jackson ran against Adams who was considered a elitist and wanted to create a monarch. While Jackson was considered to care about the ordinary man. Jackson was a democrat, who was worried about the common man, running against the whigs who were considered to be have a top down style of running government. Valuing the rich and not caring about the por. Jackson offered new hospitality to the common man. This is why he was so liked by the people. Before this the rulers would not care at all about the struggling man only abuot big busineses. Once in office he
In the Election of 1824, Jackson ran for president and won the popular vote, however he did not win the majority vote in the electoral college. Therefore, the House of Representatives would be left to decide who would be the next president. John Quincy Adams was running against Jackson. Adams wrote a letter to Henry Clay, a representative, saying that if Clay could convince the House to vote for him, he would give Henry Clay the job of Secretary of State.
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
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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
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After becoming a national hero, Andrew Jackson wanted to further his career in politics. Jackson had held office in the government before, but not for any significant time period. Jackson decided to run for president against John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William Crawford in 1824, but he lost. However, he did receive the most electoral and popular votes and when this happens, the vote goes to the House of Representatives. Henry
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