| − | After Monroe served two terms and retired just like Washington, a bitter race for president developed. Jackson started his own Democratic Party and ran against John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, the son of John Adams. Other candidates, such as Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, also ran. Jackson won more votes than Adams but not enough to become president, so the election went into the House of Representatives. There Clay apparently struck a private bargain with Adams, whereby Clay persuaded Congressmen to vote for Adams and Adams made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson ("Old Hickory") supporters criticized this as the "corrupt bargain" and Jackson, campaigning against this "corruption", crushed Adams in the presidential election four years later. | + | After Monroe served two terms and retired just like Washington, a bitter race for president developed. Jackson started his own Democratic Party and ran against John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, the son of John Adams. Other candidates, such as Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, also ran. John Quincy Adams, a Democratic-Republican (and later a National Republican), was a former Federalist who supported a strong national government. He had previously served as a minister to Russia. |
| | + | Jackson won more votes than Adams in the election but not enough to become president, so the election went into the House of Representatives. There Clay apparently struck a private bargain with Adams, whereby Clay persuaded Congressmen to vote for Adams and Adams made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson ("Old Hickory") supporters criticized this as the "corrupt bargain" and Jackson, campaigning against this "corruption", crushed Adams in the presidential election four years later. |
| | The national government kept passing tariffs to increase its funding, such as the Tariff of 1824. Henry Clay adopted a term, the "American System," to justify a protective tariff plus internal improvements nationwide as a way of expanding our domestic economy and decreasing our dependence on foreign sources. | | The national government kept passing tariffs to increase its funding, such as the Tariff of 1824. Henry Clay adopted a term, the "American System," to justify a protective tariff plus internal improvements nationwide as a way of expanding our domestic economy and decreasing our dependence on foreign sources. |