Election of 1824:A Corrupt Bargain is made

The candidates in 1824John Quincy

Adams from

Massachusetts

Andrew Jackson from Tennessee

William H. Crawford from Georgia Henry Clay from Kentucky

Election Results 1824

“A Corrupt Bargain”• No candidate won majority of

Electoral votes so vote goes

to House of Reps

• Henry Clay told his supporters in

the House to vote for John

Quincy Adams.

• When J.Q. Adams became

president, he made Clay his

Secretary of State

• Jackson and his supporters were

FURIOUS. They felt he had been

cheated out of the presidency

and vowed revenge

The Democratic Party and the Election of 1828

• After losing the election of 1824, Jackson and his

supporters built a new political party: the

DEMOCRATIC Party

***THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY***:

– Represented the common man: ordinary farmers,

workers, immigrants and the poor

– Believed the Republican party only represented the

upper class: rich, well-born, and well educated and

people influenced by MONEY

– Wanted to open up the government to the

“common man” by encouraging more people to

vote.

The Common Man• Part of middle and lower class;

Usually not very educated• Mostly farmers, artisans, small

business owners, Some may not own land

• Never really had an influence on government because they couldn’t vote

• Wanted government to be in the hands of “THE PEOPLE” not just the rich

• Lived mostly in the West, and middle areas of the United States

The Democratic Party and the Election

of 1828

• Before 1828 all property owning

white males could vote

• By 1828 ALL WHITE MALES over

the age of 21 could vote!

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

campaigned for the Election 1828

with speeches, rallies, posters,

songs, button, picnics, parades.

• Jackson won the election with the

help of first time voters

Election of 1828(Democratic Party Shows Up!)