User:Atcovi/VA and US History/Election of 1824

1825-1829

 * Jackson's campaigns throughout JQA's presidency
 * JQ Adams' Presidency
 * Emphasized internal improvements to unify the country (C&O Canal)
 * Promoted a national university
 * Tariff of 1828, or Tariff of Abominations ("corrupt bargain") - it jacks up the tariff rate over 30%. He wanted to help the North out.
 * Jackson = "Common Man"

Election of 1828

 * Jackson vs. JQ Adams
 * Lots of political events/rallies
 * Jackson uses anger over tariff to motivate the "common man".
 * "Mudslinging"
 * Adams' wife accused of illegitimacy
 * Jackson's wife accused of bigamy (1791-1794).

Rachel Jackson is accused of illegally marrying Andrew Jackson (bigamy) as her previous husband, James Robar, did not sign the divorce papers as Rachel was physically abused by him. Jackson solves the whole problem.

Jackson wins the presidency... but his wife died from a stress-induced heart attack, in which Jackson believes Adams and Clay "murdered" his wife.

Jackson runs after Henry Clay for the rest of his political career.

Re-emergence of 2-Party System

 * Democrats (Andrew Jackson)
 * Favored local rule.
 * Limited government
 * Free trade
 * Equal economic opportunities for white males
 * Opposed monopolies, banks, tariffs, high land prices


 * Southerners, westerners, small farmers, urban workers
 * Whigs (Henry Clay)
 * Favored Clay's American system.
 * Opposed immorality, vice, and crime.
 * Immigrants are a result of crime, prostitution, poverty.


 * New Englanders, professionals, educated folks

Politics of Common Man

 * 1) SLOW Ending of property requirements for voting.
 * 2) Party Nominating Conventions
 * 3) Popular Election of Presidential Electors
 * 4) Popular Campaigning
 * 5) Spolis System
 * Allows victor to appoint people to federal gov't jobs based on party loyalty and support (appoint people to the federal position if they helped Jackson to become president).

Maysville Road Bill

 * 1830
 * Takes federal money to build a road in Kentucky.

Jackson vetoes this as it is "intrastate commerce" and is not the federal's position to pay for it. In reality, he vetoes it so that Kentucky votes Henry Clay out of office.

Peggy Eaton Affair

 * "Kitchen Cabinet"
 * John Eaton had a controversial wife named Peggy.
 * Peggy Eaton grew up in a working-class household in DC. She served as a waitress. She cheated on her first husband, a sailor in the fight against the Pirates, who killed himself later.
 * Florid Calhoun, wife of the VP John Calhoun, hated Peggy Eaton because she cheated on her husband.

As a result of these rumors, Peggy Eaton was not invited to any parties and Florid Calhoun made sure that Peggy Eaton did not talk to anyone in governmental meetings.

Jackson gets involved by calling his cabinet together and says that they have to be nice to Peggy Eaton. If they don't comply, they will be fired.

John C. Calhoun resigns over this issue.