JOHN Q. ADAMS AND THE CORRUPT BARGAIN

PURITAN MISFIT1825 TO 1829

THE ELECTION OF 1824 FOUR CANDIDATES

J.Q.ADAMSA. JACKSONWILLIAM CRAWFORDHENRY CLAY131 ELECTORAL VOTES

NEEDED

THE CAMPAIGN

DIRTY AND LOUD“LOG CABIN POLITICS”UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE

THE RESULTS:

JACKSON 99ADAMS 84CRAWFORD 41CLAY 37HOUSE CHOOSES FROM TOP

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CLAY IS KING MAKER

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSECLAY HATES JACKSONCRAWFORD HAS STROKESIDES WITH ADAMSADAMS MAKES CLAY SEC. OF

STATE.

JACKSON CRIES “CORRUPT BARGAIN!!”

RECEIVED 99 ELECTORAL VOTE TO 84

RECEIVED 45,000 MORE POPULAR VOTES.

1828 CAMPAIGN BEGINS IN 1825THEME: “SHALL THE PEOPLE

RULE?”

ADAMS AS PRESIDENT.

HUMORLESS, BUT HAD BEEN A BRILLANT SEC. OF STATE

BUT NO POLITICAL BASE AS PRESIDENT.

ONLY 30% OF THE VOTERS WANTED ADAMS.

PRESIDENT ADAMS

REJECTED THE “SPOILS SYSTEM.”

HE HELD NATIONALIST VIEWS AS SECTIONALISM RETURNED.

WANTED A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, FAVORED FAIR TREATMENT OF INDIANS.

MORE…

IGNORED SECTIONAL PROBLEMS.

ADAMS EVEN HANDLED FOREIGN POLICY BADLY.

DEMANDS ACCESS TO THE BRITISH WEST INDIES.

GEORGE CANNING SAYS “NO!”

MORE PROBLEMS: THE PANAMA CONGRESS 1826

BOLIVAR CALLS CONGRESSADAMS SENDS APPOINTMENT

FOR CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.

JACKSONITES DELAY HEARING, ATTACK ADAMS AND CLAY.

PANAMA CONGRESS ENDS.

THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS 1828

A POLITICAL TRICK GOES WRONG.

TARIFF OF 1816’S RATE 20% TO 25%

TARIFF OF 1824 NEW RATE 37%JACKSONITES INTRODUCE

TARIFF OF 1828 45% RATE.

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THEY WERE SURE ADAMS WOULD VETO. WOULD HURT HIM IN NEW ENGLAND

SOUTH CALLS IT “THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATION.”

ADAMS SURPRISES JACKSONITES BY SIGNING THE BILL.

CHANGING POSITIONS ON TARIFFS

DANIEL WEBSTER HAD SPOKEN AGAINST TARIFF OF 1816

JOHN C. CALHOUN SPONSORED THE TARIFF OF 1816.

POSITIONS ARE REVERSED BY 1828.

THE SOUTH IS OUTRAGED

REASONS FOR POSITIONS

SOUTH HEAVY CONSUMERS OF IMPORTED GOODS

LEAST PROSPEROUS SECTIONFLEW FLAGS AT 1/2 STAFF.DENOUNCED THE “YANKEE

TARIFF”

SOUTHERN PROTEST

VICE PRESIDENT CALHOUN PUBLISHES “THE SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION AND PROTEST. REVIVES NULLIFICATION THEORY.

NECESSARY TO HOLD THE UNION TOGETHER.-CALHOUN

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CALHOUN :“INDIVIDUAL STATES CAN NULLIFY FEDERAL LAWS.”

HE EXPECTED OTHER SOUTHERN STATES TO FOLLOW. NONE DID

THEY EXPECTED JACKSON TO BE ELECTED IN 1828. HE WOULD END THE TARIFF.

THE RETURN OF THE 2 PARTY SYSTEM.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS SPLIT IN 1824

NATIONAL REPUBLICANS SUPPORT ADAMS AND CLAY

THE DEMOCRATS BACK JACKSON.

ISSUE OF 1828: “SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE?”

THE CAMPAIGN IN 1828

MUD SLINGING“JACKSON’S MOTHER WAS A

PROSTITUTE!”JACKSON THE DUELIST KILLER.”RACHEL ROBARDS, JACKSON’S WIFE

TREATED BADLYDIES SHORTLY AFTER THE ELECTION

JACKSON WINS A CLEAR VICTORY

178 TO 83 AND 66% OF THE POPULAR VOTE.

JACKSON TAKES THE WEST & THE SOUTH.

FIRST TIME COMMON PEOPLE VOTE IN LARGE NUMBERS.

JOHN Q. ADAMS AFTER THE PRESIDENCY.

ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF REP.

SERVE 17 YEARSDIED AT AGE 80 STILL IN THE

HOUSE.LARGE STATE FUNERAL

THE REVOLUTION OF 1828

POLITICAL POWER MOVE WEST.GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN BY

EASTERN ARISTOCRATS GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE.

NOT BY THE PEOPLE.JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY BROUGHT

“GOVERNMENT OF AND BY THE PEOPLE.”

WHAT IS JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY?

BASED ON UNIVERSAL MALE SUFFRAGE.

COMMON PEOPLE CAN RUN THE GOVER’T.

INCLUDES FARMERS AND INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

EXPANDS SOCIAL & POLITICAL DEMOCRACY.

MORE…

SUPPORTS TRADE UNIONSCHEAP FEDERAL LANDPRESIDENT REPRESENTS ALL

THE PEOPLECONVENTIONS SHOULD

SELECT CANDIDATES

JACKSON & SPOILS SYSTEM

“ROTATION IN OFFICE”MORE VICTORS THAN SPOILSSCANDALS SAMUEL

SWARTWONTPOLITICAL MACHINE POLITICS

CABINET CRISIS

MEDIOCRE CABINET EXCEPT VAN BUREN

THE “KITCHEN CABINET”THE PEGGY EATON AFFAIR 1831JACKSON BREAKS WITH

CALHOUN

THE MAYVILLE ROAD

JACKSON’S REVENGE AGAINST CLAY

JACKSON VETOES MAYVILLE ROAD IN KENTUCKY ON CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS

THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATES

ROBERT Y HAYNE OF SO. CAROLINA (STATES RIGHTS)

DANIEL WEBSTER- (THE UNION CAUSE)

“A ROPE OF SAND.” -WEBSTER“LIBERTY AND UNION NOW AND

FOREVER!”