Election of Andrew Jackson

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Election of Andrew Jackson
Before his election as the United States’ Seventh President, Andrew Jackson had served as a soldier. As a statesman and a soldier in the US Army, he gained fame and later served in both houses of Congress. Andrew’s election to the presidency in 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election. He carried 15 states and 178 electoral votes compared to Quincy Adams’ 83 electoral votes and 9 states. Running on the Democratic Party, Jackson defeated Quincy Adams the then president of the Democratic Party, and second president to lose re-election. His win marked a significant starting point for the Democratic Party’s Dominance (Parsons, 44).
The 1828 election is Andrew Jackson’s election is one of the most significant for having paved the way for party solidification. In the previous election, 1824, Quincy Adams became president although Jacksons had won the majority vote and plurality of the electoral since the House of Representatives decided the election. The 1828 election marked the essence of public opinion because of Jackson’s posture as the common man’s candidate. Unlike previous elections, the 1828 election saw a two-way contest between Republicans and Democrats. The election of Andrew Jackson was significant in the expansion of democracy and is credited for having passed power to the ordinary voters.
According to (Killion, 54), Jackson did not have a federalist pedigree like previous candidates – a factor that presented him as an outsider to the dirty politics and as an ordinary man’s candidate.

Mr. Adams understood that unless he attracted adherence of the defeated candidates, his defeat was inevitable. Jackson’s claims and intends to tackle the misuse of political funds endeared him amongst his supporters. The campaigns saw Jacksonian politicians attract leaderless elements to Jackson’s camp. In his work, (Cole, 123) notes that Jackson preferred not to speak on issue positions and focused on voicing his strengths and why he was more suited to lead than Adams. On the other hand, Quincy Adams avoided popular tours and articulated his opinion on issues. The goal of President Adams’ supporters was to portray Jackson as a meagre military chief.
Jackson’s disaffection for the National Bank is well documented (Parsons, 256). When Alexander Hamilton, an influential entrepreneur, and founding father proposed a Central Bank, he envisioned a bank that would allow growth of the national economy. Jackson believed the bank was harmful and unconstitutional. Besides, his experiences and financial misfortunes solidified his claim that the banking system was dangerous to the liberties of the citizens. Jackson’s argued that concentrating the nation’s wealth in one institution was dangerous and uncovered the government to foreign interest control factors. Besides, Jackson believed that the National Bank was partisan and favored the northeastern states- a factor that would put the western and southern states at a disadvantage.
The Nullification Crisis that saw the federal government confront South Carolina in 1832 found Andrew Jackson in office. The United States had suffered an economic downtown in the 1820s- a factor that several South Carolina officials blamed on the national policy tariffs. Parsons (311) notes that the taxes had been enacted into law during President Quincy Adams’ era. The failure of President Jackson’s administration to take action led to dissatisfaction within South Carolina. President Jackson’s handling of the tariffs led to the eventual resignation of his vice John Calhoun who believed that the purpose of the taxes was raising revenue and not to discourage foreign competition.
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HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_B._Cole” o “Donald B. Cole” Cole, Donald B. Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two Party System (2009). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-5705.2011.03864.x Accessed on 11th Dec 2018.
Killion, Anna, Mary. The election of Andrew Jackson, 1828. Boston University, College of Liberal Arts, 1930. https://open.bu.edu/bitstream/handle/2144/7486/theelectionofand00kill.pdf?sequence=1 Accessed on 11th Dec 2018.
Parsons, Lynn H. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (2009). Print.