# 1301.10d - Election of 1824

**Channel:** Chad Tomaselli
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_kdZXXRXxc
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/A_kdZXXRXxc

## Chapters

- 0:00 — Era of Good Feelings Breaks Apart
- 2:18 — Election Decided in the House
- 4:26 — The Corrupt Bargain Controversy
- 6:01 — Rise of New Political Parties

## Transcript

**[0:00]:** the Democratic Republican party was the only major party during the Era of Good Feelings the Federalist by 1820 had ceased to exist as a National Force but the Democratic Republican party itself was starting to divide into factions so without a opposition party and with no two-party system this election was chaos Monroe will not stand for a third election following Madison Jefferson and particularly Washington's example so there are four Democratic Republican candidates good Lord I've gotten except recording all these extra videos um I just keep getting scam calls and scam calls it's so annoying uh there are four Democratic Republican candidates uh and I'm not going to talk about them in the order they're on the slide um the we'll start with William Crawford bottom left picture he was from Georgia he was older he was more on the conservative side of the party um it certainly was a southerner and

**[1:04]:** he was still holding on to Jefferson's ideas like compact theory nullifications he represented largely the Old Guard you have Henry Clay top right from Kentucky he was still speaker of the house and of course his platform was the American system top left you have John Quincy Adams from Massachusetts he was the son of the second president the first vice President John Adams his ideas were very slim similar to Clay and he was the only northerner involved Quincy Adams wasn't didn't go as far as clay and was a little more strict construction than clay but they were fairly close in there in their ideas fourth and final certainly not least bottom bottom right Andrew Jackson he was a war hero he had a little but not much in the way of political experience and his ideas were basically anti-clay um a lot of the things that clay was pushing for Jackson was pushing for the opposite

**[2:03]:** lower tariffs no National Bank no internal improvements basically much like we had Jefferson and Hamilton where you have what yeah you know I gave you Hamilton's ideas and then said well Jefferson's the opposite I gave you Clay's ideas

**[2:18]:** the American system Jackson is the opposite the election itself no one won a majority of the electoral votes do I have a map I do not no one won or at least not yet no one wanted a majority electoral vote so when there's no majority as it happened in 1800 the election goes to the House of Representatives now Jackson had the most electoral votes but not enough to win he also had the most popular votes in fact the order that these candidates had had placed Jackson was in first Quincy Adams was in second Crawford and third clay was in fourth so Jackson q.a Crawford clay when the it goes to house only the top three candidates are considered uh clay was fourth and was out of the running so he's gone however he was the speaker of the house so essentially he controlled the election now play disliked Quincy Adams he thought Crawford wasn't fit

**[3:25]:** and he really did not like Jackson and in fact about Jackson in this election clay said I cannot believe that killing two uh 2500 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies one for the various difficult and complicated duties of the chief magistry basically just because he killed a bunch of British people at New Orleans doesn't mean that he's fit for the rigors of being president not necessarily wrong um the vote in the house the first uh major vote comes down to Quincy Adams and Jackson uh Crawford was the Old Guard he didn't have a ton of support um so he was also uh just old also his health wasn't good so he wasn't even really part of this whole thing so what what this election really comes down to it's Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

**[4:26]:** clay will throw his support behind Quincy Adams and the house will vote for Quincy Adams uh so Jackson was defeated rumors began spreading that clay had only supported Quincy Adams remember I told you that he dis clay disliked Quincy Adams that clay only supported him on the promise that the that clay would become Secretary of State Jackson heard these rumors and was incensed because he was the top vote getter whether popular or electoral vote and thought that he should have won he called this bargain which we don't know if it actually happened but he called this rumored deal between Quincy Adams and Clay where clay would support Quincy Adams in the house to get him so he would be elected president and in return Quincy Adams would name clay to be Secretary of State uh Jackson called this the corrupt bargain corrupt bargain more likely those who didn't vote for Jackson initially so those who

**[5:27]:** had voted for clay or Crawford voted for anyone but Jackson and were convinced by Clay that it should be Quincy Adams and yes Clay did become Secretary of State under Quincy Adams though we don't again we don't really know if this corrupt bargain actually happened I I personally don't really lean one way or the other I don't know what this election ultimately resulted in besides Quincy Adams becoming president

**[6:01]:** was that the Democratic Republican party will not survive this mess and it will split over the next few years the new parties really did not come together until 1826 to 28 the the last two years of Quincy Adams presidency these two new parties first of which are the National Republicans who only lasted eight years and again really not really until 26 28 so a very short-lived period of time this is not really the origin of the Republican modern Republican Party they were led by Quincy Adams Henry Clay and John C Calhoun they largely followed Clay's American System ideas for strong national government and loose construction though Adams and Clay did Clash over policy they will collapse after the 1832 election and they'll reform into another party called The Whig party w-h-i-g foreign the other side of this are the Democrats and this is where the modern democratic party has its Origins but as you see

**[7:16]:** it wasn't so much an ideological split as it was a split over personality they weren't doing this to form a new party because the ideas were different because Jackson was felt he was screwed in the election and the people who supported him fell behind eventually they'll have ideas the Democrats led by Andrew Jackson the other man here is Martin Van Buren b-u-r-e-n and John C Calhoun yes Calhoun is on both lists because he started as a national Republican but flipped before the 1828 election to being a Democrat at this point the Democrats stood for nothing but 100 opposition to the National Republicans eventually they'll have a more defined policy following Jackson's ideals that's something that we'll talk about right at the start of unit 3. so this election was total chaos and it was the definitive end to the Era of Good Feelings though the country did not know it it was entering a new era the age of Jackson