The Election of 1824 was a divided one, as the candidates, Jackson, Adams, Crawford, nor Clay won the majority of the popular vote although Andrew Jackson received the most votes, electoral and popular. Due to the 12th amendment, the House of Representatives were given the right to choose between the three candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes. Since Henry Clay got the least amount of votes, he was not considered. Although Clay was out of the running, he supported Adams, due to his rivalry with Jackson. With Clay’s support, Adams was able to win the Election of 1824. This angered Jackson, and in 1828, he decided to run again because he believed he was robbed. He finally won the election, and the Jacksonian Era (1828 - 1850), …show more content…
This national bank, created in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton, was to handle the war debt accumulated from the American Revolution. Jackson opposed this institution because he believed that it gave the federal government too much control. He also believed that this institution catered to the rich. Jackson was representative of the average American, and he wanted to give power to the people, not just the aristocratic population. Henry Clay proposed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States in 1832, and naturally Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill. He set up “pet banks” in order to actively try to take the bank down. It took many years for Jackson to successfully dismantle the Bank of the United States, and in 1833 he finally destroyed it. Today, a bank where the federal government is controlling it is non-existent. This major change is due to Andrew Jackson’s persistence in successfully dismantling the institution. Overall, the elimination of the National Bank marked a turning point in American political life because it gave the Federal government less power and more power to the …show more content…
South Carolina believed they had the right to declare which federal laws were illegal. Jackson strongly believed that in giving states the right to declare which federal laws were illegal would cause chaos. The Tariff of 1828 or the “Tariff of Abominations,” was passed in order to protect the economy/industry of the North by increasing the price of European goods. With this tariff in place, Southerners were forced to look inward for business. Denied the right to decide which federal laws are illegal, South Carolina threatened secession. Jackson, infuriated with South Carolina for threatening to break the union, compromised by making the tariff lower. Jackson marked a turning point in American political life because he prevented a break in the union and set an example for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln used Jackson’s techniques in dealing with secession himself. As Jackson based his attack on democratic grounds, Lincoln based his attack on Democratic grounds as
Andrew Jackson didn’t want the bank to get rechartered so after the bank flew through Congress he vetoed it, Congress was unable to override Jackson’s veto. Then Jackson proceed to order his secretary of the treasury to move future government funds to state banks called pet banks. While that was happening the government would remove their funds from the United States bank till it was in a financial panic. Jackson held his ground while Congress censuring him that the removal of the United States bank was a misuse of his presidential power. The United States went into an uncontrolled inflation and Jackson issued the Specie Circular which declared the federal government would only accept hard money for purchasing public lands.
Andrew Jackson wanted and even gave everyone equal economic opportunity by lessening monopoly with his bank veto. However, the financial panic of 1837 was caused by two of his plans, these include pet banks and Specie Circular. People in favor of the national bank proposed a renewal bill for the Second National Bank's charter. Jackson was not necessarily opposed to central banking as much as he was to the idea of the Second National Bank. By opposing the bill, the Second Bank expired and the US would be without an official bank for many years.
War on national banks/economic decision: Jackson did not like the bank he said that the bank was unconstitutional Jackson hate on bank became a big issue in the presidential campaign of 1832 Henry Clay said that Andrew Jackson wanted to much power as the president When Andrew Jackson became president again he thought that that meant that the public approved his opinion on destroying the national bank on Andrew Jackson second term his goal was to destroy the bank before its charter ended in 1836 eventually the bank went out of business Jackson won the war but the economy was the victim. Andrew Jackson ended up getting rid of the National Bank and with the money that was in the bank he took it out and gave the money to a lot of smaller banks
Internal Improvements and Protective Tariffs One of the main points of Henry Clay’s American System, the necessity of subsidies for internal improvements and protective tariffs, was a source of debate between Jackson and Clay. While in Senate Jackson voted for protective tariffs and internal improvement bills, but soon “became convinced that the internal improvement policies favored by his enemies were a species of corruption and an outrageous drain on the treasury” . When the Maysville Road project was proposed that would build a highway across Kentucky, Jackson was quick to veto the bill. He viewed the issue of the road as a local, not national issue, therefore making it unconstitutional. Clay, borrowing a line from Hamilton, argued the road was a national issue and cited the necessary and proper clause.
There were new methods of campaigning that were introduced by Adams and Jackson in the Elections of 1824 and 1828. For the Election of 1824 they was 3 people running for president, they were Henry Clay of Kentucky, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, and John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts. Jackson won 99 electoral votes, giving him a plurality, or largest single share. But according to 10-1 in paragraph 2, sentence 4, it states,"Under the Twelfth Amendment, when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives selects the president. " During the House prepared to vote, Clay and Adams made an agreement that Clay would use his influence as Speaker of the House to defeat Jackson.
The outcome of the very close election of 1824 surprised political leaders. The winner in the all-important Electoral College was Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, with ninety-nine votes. He was followed by John Q. Adams who secured eighty-four votes. William Crawford trailed well behind with just forty-one votes. Although Jackson seemed to have won a narrow victory, receiving 43 percent of the popular vote versus just 30 percent for Adams, he would not be seated as the country 's sixth president.
If Jackson Had Won The Vote And Won The Presidency When James Monroe served as president of the United States from 1817-1825, a time often referred to as “The Era of Good Feelings,” the country had just found a new sense of durability and a unified idea of peace. As Monroe’s second term was coming to an end, the Americans were still holding onto these new feelings that they had developed. A difference in political opinion was no longer viewed as treason and the presidential electors were chosen by popular vote, which highly increased the participation in the election. As the Election of 1824 approached, for the first time, none of the 5 major presidential candidates ran as a member of the Federalist party, for the United States had a one-party
A Controversial Election Throughout history, Andrew Jackson's presidency has received more attention than many other, in part because of the way he changed the view Americans had in the actual electoral process. During Jackson's first attempt for the presidency, Jackson won the popular vote but not much of the electoral vote, forcing the election to be decided in the House of Representatives (Friedline, 2009). As the vote for the future president fell into the hands of the House, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams struck a deal; Henry Clay would release his electoral votes to Adams in return for the position of secretary of state during his term. This deal resulted in Adams winning the election by one vote. The deal struck between Adams and
Andrew Jackson came across many controversies in his life and he had many ways to face all his problems. He was determined to what his mind was set to and Jackson was a very stubborn man. Jackson was not the kind of guy that would listen to just anybody he would do what he choose to do. Andrew Jackson and the national bank, The bank war refers to the political struggle that developed over the issue of recharting and i believe that he took the national bank to help himself and to help the people also, the bank of the united states also printed the country 's paper money and it was the only bank permitted to have offices across the nation. when president Jackson was leader of the country he did not get along very well with the bank and he
national bank. As Jacksons term continued, he truly grew a desire to crush the Second Bank of the United states. Over time Jackson decided that it could not continue how it was, and that it did not want warrant reform, it must be destroyed. Jacksons reason for this conclusion was a result of his past financial problems, his views on states’ rights, and his tennesse roots. The Second Bank centralized financial might, jeopardizing economic stability; it served as a monopoly on fiscal policy, but it did not answer to anyone within the government.
South Carolina was furious about the new acts that Henry Clay had put into order. South Carolina felt that the high tariffs were unconstitutional and were pushing their citizens into poverty. Later South Carolina published an Ordinance of Nullification saying that they did not have to abide by the law of the higher tariffs, and that their officials did not have to enforce their citizens to follow it either. South Carolina also threatened to leave the Union if anyone tried to stop them from following this new Ordinance of Nullification. Of course President Andrew Jackson saw this as a huge issue.
The founders of the United States did their best to create a government that would not allow erroneous decisions to greatly harm the nation. They set a percent of presidents being politically sound and well-known; their beliefs for how the nation should be handled were essential to their campaign. President Andrew Jackson, however, did not follow this system, instead winning primarily by his personality and popularity amongst the common American. While his actions in office often appeared to be for the people, most had a hidden selfish side to them that he easily covered up. With the election of 1828, Jackson radically changed American politics, focusing them more on public appearance and personal character than on intelligence and political views, making personality just as, if not more important than the actual politics of a political term.
As a democracy, we expect our leaders to care about the we want as a union. However, this isn 't what we always get. For example, Andrew Jackson could be considered one of these self serving leaders. To some, Andrew Jackson represents a war hero but others would say he was an arrogant and unbending person. Impoverished and uneducated he would rise from orphan to war hero leaving thousands of Native Americans dead in the wake of his political ambitions.
Jackson 's push to abolish national banks other wise known as "the bank wars" was one of his more well known pushes for small government. In 1832, Jackson had vetoed a bill calling for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter, but renewal was still possible when the charter expired
He mistrusted paper money greatly, as well as believed in power to the common people. Andrew Jackson feared the Bank’s power. He was afraid of the Bank becoming stronger and lending that power to the elite without holding accountability towards them, something he believed great powers should have; accountability. Jackson specifically stated that he believed the Bank made “the rich richer and the potent more powerful.” Jackson liked the so-called farmer’s economy since it motivated people to be hardworking and independent.