8th grade US History information about the Election of 1824

8.  John Quincy Adams
 MA
 Highly qualified but people found him
cold and self important
 Committed to internal improvements
 Less strongly committed to tariffs
 Very good friend of Clay

9.  Henry Clay
 KY
 Speaker of the House
 People love him
 Strength is compromise
 Favored the National Bank, protective
tariffs, and a national program for
internal improvements - believed it
would build the nation and economy

10.  William Crawford
 GA
 Congressman and Secretary of
State
 Radical Republicans – distrusted
nationalism that developed during
John Adams Presidency

11.  Andrew Jackson
 TN
 Hero of the Battle of New Orleans
 Says he is the anti-politician
 Wanted government to support the
common man
 No real platform

14.  Jackson had the most votes but not a
majority of electoral votes
 Clay got least votes
 Crawford is dying and is out of the race
 Clay tosses his votes to Adams it is said in
exchange for the role job of Sec. of State
 Jackson believes it is an example of the
powerful controlling the government

15.  Democratic-Republican party splits
 1. Democratic – Republican party
supports Jackson and becomes the
party of the common people
 2. National Republican Party
becomes a new party and is led by
Adams

16.  Jackson says Adams is an aristocrat, upper
class, spent to much money on national
projects
 Adams says Jackson is a barbarian and a
savage, that he can barely spell his own
name, and ruffian with a furious temper
 Jackson wins with the support of urban
eastern workers, farmers in the south and
the west.

17.  Jackson “Old Hickory” as President
 Believes the government should give
equal protection and equal benefit for
all people
 Creates the “Spoils System” – fired
everyone in the government and hired
his friends. He believed the people in
the government were corrupt and
needed to be replaced.

18.  For the first time white men who
did not own property were able to
vote
 Share croppers, factory workers
and other were able to vote and the
thought Jackson was their best bet
for a voice in the government

19.  End of private party caucus – where
a group of men when into a room
and decided who the party would
run for president.
 Nominating conventions where
delegates from each state vote for
who will run for President replace
it.

21.  Tariff of Abominations 1828
 Tariff caused the price of foreign
goods sold in the US to increase
 Northern View Point: Made
European goods more expensive
and that made it possible for
Northern manufacturing to make a
profit.

22. Southern View Point
The tariff makes the North
more powerful and profitable
while making goods more
expensive in the South

23.  Jackson’s view point
 Must not allow the tariff to break
the country
 The South is suggesting that they
will Nullify (refuse the law) the law
if it continues.
 Jackson does not want the concept
of Nullification to take hold in the
country.

24. Jackson's VP (John C. Calhoun)
to battle against the "Tariff of
Abominations" and in 1828 he
states that the Union was an
agreement among sovereign
states and therefore had the
right to nullify any federal law

25.  Nullification Crisis – what if the South
refuses to able the law and actually says it
is not the law in the South
 Jan. 1830 - Senator Daniel Webster
counters Senator Haynes’s speech favoring
nullification with a 2 day speech tying the
Constitution and Union and Liberty

26.  Nullification Crises
 Jackson and his Vice-President take
different sides
 Jackson (from the South) says the law
must stand and Calhoun (from the
South) says states have the right to
decide for them selves if they follow the
law.

27.  Jackson “ Our federal union must be
preserved”
 Calhoun “ The Union next to our
liberty, most dear.”
 Comprise is reacted but the North and
South are working their way toward the
Civil War

28.  Calhoun resigns and becomes a senator
and Martin Van Burean becomes the
VP
 S. Carolina nullifies the tariff and
threatened to secede
 Jackson and Clay create a compromise
of the tariff and S. Carolina backs down