Elections of 1824 and 1828
1. What is a caucus?
2. Each section of the country selected their own candidate to run for president.
Who did the Republicans run for president in 1824?
Was their corruption in selecting Adams?
President Jackson
1. Jackson wanted people to view him as?
Election of 1828
Jackson and the Democrats were outraged at what
happened, and wanted to make sure they won the
1828 election.
2. Jackson was accused of abusing the spoils system.
What is the spoils system?
1. Who helped to reform the Democratic Party in
the Jacksonian Democrats?
The NE selected:
The West selected:
Tariff of Abomination
1. Why was South Carolina angry about the Tariff of
1828?
2. Who wins the 1828 election? What parts of the
country helped him win?
2. South Carolina threatened to secede-
3. When the election was over, who had the most votes?
3. The election of 1828 was full of mudslinging.
Define mudslinging-
3. VP Calhoun (from South Carolina), realized the problem this causes, and instead suggested that S.C. nullify.
Define nullification-
4. What are some of the things the Jacksonian Democrats said about Adams?
4. What did Hayne and Webster debate?
Hayne:
Why wasn’t he named president?
Who selects the president when no one candidate gets a
majority of the electoral college votes?
Who did the House of Representatives choose to be
president?
Webster:
5. What did they say about Jackson?
5. South Carolina readied for war, but Jackson skillfully
lowered the tariff and had the Congress pass the force bill.
What did the force bill do?
6. In the end, war was avoided!