Chapter 4 Section 5: The Age of Jackson

The Age of Jackson

           

In 1824 there were four outstanding candidates: John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson. They all ran for the presidency in 1824, although only two of them achieved the presidency and pass to the history of the US. In 1826 July the 4^th Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died, this was the day in which the declaration of independence had its fiftieth anniversary. Great mystery was brought since both ex presidents had died.  John Quincy Adams had at astonishing accomplishment in 1819 when he had negotiations in the Adams-Onís Treaty in which he acquired Florida form the Spanish. Also the Adam’s diplomatic career was the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. In my opinion the other two candidates Clay, and Calhoun were not so important as Adams. Andrew Jackson served in congress in the 1790’s, he also battled in New Orleans in 1815, he had a bad temperate and that was one of the mainly known things about him. At the beginning of the political pursuit for Jackson he had obtain a lot of popularity with people. Yet there was flaw in the Electoral College since Adams had obtained more votes from a corrupt act, which was that Clay gave him votes from Kentucky. Many people believed such accusation even though Clay and Adams denied such things. Then in 1828 the elections were held again, Jackson at this time was fighting against the government being involved in the economy.

            When the elections of 1828 were held two new political parties arose, the National Republican and the Jacksonian Democrats. At the end Jackson won this elections and even more people voted on them then in the 1824 elections. Jackson was in favor to have the states work separately from the central government. Jackson also defended the spoil system, which was to bring his friends and friends to the central government. One of the most crucial points for Jackson was in 1832 when he had to oppose to the Bank of the United States for a second time, since in the 1790’s he lost some of his money. This is kind of logical for a person to due; I find it strong that he stepped up. Also in 1828 there was high tariff in tax for imports so people would by more things from made in the US. In my opinion President Jackson was a good president, he oppose against many things that would harm the people who supported him. Jackson was a president who supported his people and tried to help the others as much as he could.