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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
3
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.
MORE…
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
MORE…
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!”