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Election of 1824
John Quincey Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and John C. Calhoun were running for a president at the time when nobody won the electoral vote. If you dont win the electoral votes then the vote goes to the House of Representitives. John Q. Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson were the only people running at the time, when John Adams makes a deal with Henry Clay, the House Speaker, to what is known as the "corrupt bargin," Adams said that is Clay helped him win the election than Clay could be.. -
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the Secretary of State. So Clay agreed with the deal and helped Adams beat Jackson. This showed that there was a corrupt system where insiders persuaded others to vote for the person who would usually not be right for the job. -
Election of 1828
This was the first presidential election that wasn't based off of caucases, but by conventions. The two people running John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson had faced off in the Election of 1824 where Adams won. During this election, both men had been accused of different things. The people saw Adams as an elitist by using his power to win over the votes. Jackson had been accused of murder as he had taken part in several duels, killing one. Jackson ended up winning in the end. -
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At the end of Jackson's term almost all free white man was allowed to vote and did not need to own any land. It also showed that and common man (a man not raised in a weathy family) could become president. -
Bank War
The Bank War was a period of time when Andrew Jackson vetoed the national bank, instead using state banks to hold taxes and federal funds. Thus resulting in an increase of cotton production in the south, enormus expansion in the west, and a boom in industry in the north. -
Indian Removal Act
In 1830, Jackson had granted an act removing all native tribes while trading them land east of the mississippi river, for land west of the mississippi river. This caused a major outbreak with some of the tribes, espically the seminoles. The seminoles refused to move out of their land and claimed that there land was "givin by gods" and that it wouldn't be fair if they had to move. They eventually did move, but not without force of the U.S army. Thus making the natives walk the trail of tears. -
Worcester vs Georgia
In this court case Samuel A. Worcester went to court for settling on Cherokee land. The Cherokee's weren't to happy about seeing a white man, who was not qualfied, settle on their land. Cheif Justice John Marshall later said that Worcester could settle on Cherokee land. This court case is important because it was the start of the Indian Removal Act -
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Instead of nullifing the tariff, Jackson made a compromise that lowered the tariff but gave the president more power to use force if a state threatened to secede. -
Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson had put the highet tariff ever on imported goods. This had sothern states mad as they had depended on trade with Europe for their economy. One of these states was by far furious of the tariff, that state was South Carolina. South Carolina had threatend the government that if they didn't nullify the tariff than they would secede from America. This had the government worried as they didn't want any of the states to secede and become their own nation. So instead of nullifing the...
