John Quincy Adams

worry over how the addition of new territories would affect the balance of slave states and free states in Congress. The Missouri Compromise, created to help maintain the balance, furthered the division between the North and the South. In a letter to John Randolph, a Democratic-Republican, Thomas Jefferson asserted his belief that the Missouri Compromise was only a temporary solution that would continue to perpetuate the issue of slavery (Doc. F). Jefferson was a founding father fervently…

The term “Jacksonian Democracy” describes the period in United States history, from the late 1820s to the beginning of the civil war, during which Andrew Jackson ascended to the presidency and founded the Democratic Party. Coming on the heels of the Jeffersonian era, in which Thomas Jefferson espoused beliefs that property ownership should be a requirement for suffrage and only the educated elite should hold office, Jackson extended voting rights to all white men, not simply landowners. He…

The caucus nominating system, or King Caucus, was beginning to show cracks, demonstrated by the election of 1824 and disagreements about its constitutionality. It would be replaced by the mass party system crafted by Martin Van Buren. The mass party system was upheld as supporting local, constitutional government, replacing a system that favored the wealthy and centralized powers. Van Buren argued that the mass party system would remove sectional conflict and replace it with loyalty to party…

Our country has been built and continues to be built on political powerhouses. Andrew Jackson and Robert Matthews both came of age as orphans in the late eighteenth century, but by the late 1820’s Jackson had risen from poverty in the Carolina backcountry to become a plantation owner and presidential candidate while Matthews came from a small farming family in upstate New York to failures and religions extremism. Both these men took different life turns due to their upbringings and opportunities…

In 1828, the first US railroad appears. In 1834, Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical mower. In 1835, Samuel F.B. Morse invents the telegraph. In 1838, John Deere invents the steel plow. In 1842, Massachusetts legalizes labor unions in Commonwealth v. Hunt, followed by the New England Female Labor Reform group in 1844. In 1846, Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. And last but certainly not least, in…

supporters raged against what they called the “corrupt bargain” between Clay and Adams, and Jackson himself resigned from the Senate” (staff, 2009). Now this as followed: “Election of 1828: Jackson was denominated to run for President in 1825, three years before the next election. John C. Calhoun was his Vice President. The party became known as the Democrats at this time. He ran against incumbent John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party. The campaign was less about issues and…

The fierce election of 1828, featured former president John Quincy Adams against the war hero Andrew Jackson. Jackson felt cheated due to the "corrupt bargain" during the election of 1824,and has decided to take one more shot at presidency. Jackson, the candidate who gained popular support from both the West and South, arrived victorious at the conclusion to the election of 1828. Despite his political campaign, some historians regard Jackson 's presidency as "great," which in terms places him…

He worked with secretary John Quincy Adams to form an aggressive, and solid foreign policy in regard to European affairs. In the beginning, the Monroe administration wanted to improve their relations with Britain. Towards the end of the process, it negotiated two main agreements with…

post War of 1812, Americans were as gleeful as could be. The war ended gallantly with a win in New Orleans by troops led by Andrew Jackson. The presidential race of 1828 consisted of two strong candidates with faithful followers, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Adams was a highly educated man in terms of foreign affairs with his supporters being called National Republicans. On the contrary, Jackson, or "Old Hickory," was a charismatic man of the South with his Jacksonians by his side. This…

Monroe’s second election went by without a hitch. Not wanting to embarrass the president, there was no nomination to run against Monroe in the Democratic-Republican Party, considering there would only be a handful of votes. The Federalist Party, almost all abandoned, also had no one to elect nor endorse. This allowed for James Monroe and his current Vice-President Tompkins to run unopposed. Monroe says in his Second Inaugural Address, “I shall not attempt to describe the grateful emotions which…