The election of 1824

In this election there were four cadidates. These four candidates were Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, son of the previous president Adams, Sec. of Treasury William H. Crawford, Henry Clay of Kentucky and Andrew Jackson of Tennessee. In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won and he tried to set up a government using Henry Clay's American System. He wanted a protective tariff, federally subsidized roads and canals and a national bank to control credit and create a uniform currency. In this election Jackson was still fighting to get his way and in 1828 and tariff was placed that rose tariffs on imported raw materials. This infuriated the southerners because it cost them about $100 million more a year than it should have.

Then in the election of 1828 Adams didn't run again and Jackson ended up winnig this election with extreme votes. Jackson was all for state rights and a less powerful central government. The people that supported Jackson became known as the Democrats because the republic ideals were more for a few idividual right rather than the whole and the Jacksonians were about the whole society. In 1832 John C. Calhoun thought that the states should be able to decide if tariffs were constitutional or not and even though Jackson was for the states he thought this idea was rediculous. In 1833 Jackson passed the Force bill that gradually lowered the taxes and by 1842 the tariffs were back to the modest rates of 1816. Jackson also didn't approve of the Second National Bank and he vetoed a bill to recharter it and declared that congress had no constitutional right to charter a national bank. In 1830 Jackson pushed for the Indian Removal Act that would move the indians to present day Oklahoma and Kansas (west of the Mississippi), just the way the easterners wanted it. Eventually Jackson used Military force to move the indians who refused to move. Overall Jackson's presidency celebrated the power of the people.