The Missouri Compromise And The Corrupt Bargain

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1.Democracy is a society chooses its presidents or other members of government by voting to their liking, rather than having the legislature vote based on their own interests. The legislature would usually choose people based on their wealth, land, religion, and of course their race, if they were anything but white then they were out of the race. The Missouri Compromise and the Corrupt Bargain were contributing factors in the rise of democracy. The Missouri Compromise was a deal made based on the balance of free and slave states. When Missouri wanted to be a slave state they had to add Maine as a free state so they remained balanced. The Corrupt Bargain dealt with a deal made between Clay and Adams in the election of 1824 where Clay gave his votes to Adams which the Jackson out of office. These would lead to democracy forming which is still the way we run our government elections and how we make decisions for ourselves in everyday situations.

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3.The “American System” was created by Henry Clay and it was used to try and improve America's economic development and formation. J,Q, Adams supported Henry Clay, just as Clay had supported Adams during the election of 1824 which led to the Corrupt Bargain where Jackson tried to attack Adams by convincing the public of Adams
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Some of these problems were a fear of causing unneeded violence and disruption in a community of people, the indians, who had not created a whole lot of problems for us other than being on the land we wanted. Jackson would also have to relocate the indians, which was going to take time and money and probably cost a lot of lives. Jackson continued with his plan to move the indians even though it would cause a lot of conflict between the already pissed off Indians and Americans. He also continued with the removal knowing that some lives of the indians were going to be lost. The outcome was a death of 25% of the 16,000

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