{"id":304,"date":"2015-08-21T17:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/ushistory1os2xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=304"},"modified":"2016-08-08T01:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:26:05","slug":"a-new-political-style-from-john-quincy-adams-to-andrew-jackson","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-americanhistory1\/chapter\/a-new-political-style-from-john-quincy-adams-to-andrew-jackson\/","title":{"raw":"A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson","rendered":"A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to:\r\n<ul class=\"im_orderedlist\">\r\n \t<li>Explain and illustrate the new style of American politics in the 1820s<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the policies of John Quincy Adams\u2019s presidency and explain the political divisions that resulted<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figure id=\"CNX_History_10_01_Timeline\" class=\"timeline\"><span id=\"fs-idm117073552\" data-type=\"media\" data-alt=\"A timeline shows important events of the era. In 1824, John Quincy Adams is elected president in a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d; a portrait of Adams is shown. In 1828, the \u201cTariff of Abominations\u201d protects northern manufacturers, and Andrew Jackson wins the popular and electoral votes; a portrait of Jackson is shown. In 1830, Congress passes the Indian Removal Act; a portrait of Sauk chief Black Hawk is shown. In 1832, the Nullification Crisis risks violent secession, and President Jackson vetoes the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States. In 1834, the Whig Party forms in opposition to the Democratic Party. In 1837, a financial panic prompts an extended recession. In 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is elected president; a portrait of Harrison is shown.\">\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202420\/CNX_History_10_01_Timeline.jpg\" alt=\"A timeline shows important events of the era. In 1824, John Quincy Adams is elected president in a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d; a portrait of Adams is shown. In 1828, the \u201cTariff of Abominations\u201d protects northern manufacturers, and Andrew Jackson wins the popular and electoral votes; a portrait of Jackson is shown. In 1830, Congress passes the Indian Removal Act; a portrait of Sauk chief Black Hawk is shown. In 1832, the Nullification Crisis risks violent secession, and President Jackson vetoes the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States. In 1834, the Whig Party forms in opposition to the Democratic Party. In 1837, a financial panic prompts an extended recession. In 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is elected president; a portrait of Harrison is shown.\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm142980208\">In the 1820s, American political culture gave way to the democratic urges of the citizenry. Political leaders and parties rose to popularity by championing the will of the people, pushing the country toward a future in which a wider swath of citizens gained a political voice. However, this expansion of political power was limited to white men; women, free blacks, and Indians remained\u2014or grew increasingly\u2014disenfranchised by the American political system.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"fs-idm210148656\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">THE DECLINE OF FEDERALISM<\/h1>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm211421888\">The first party system in the United States shaped the political contest between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. The Federalists, led by Washington, Hamilton, and Adams, dominated American politics in the 1790s. After the election of Thomas Jefferson\u2014the Revolution of 1800\u2014the Democratic-Republicans gained ascendance. The gradual decline of the Federalist Party is evident in its losses in the presidential contests that occurred between 1800 and 1820. After 1816, in which Democratic-Republican James Monroe defeated his Federalist rival Rufus King, the Federalists never ran another presidential candidate.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm217632096\">Before the 1820s, a <span data-type=\"term\">code of deference<\/span> had underwritten the republic\u2019s political order. Deference was the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through military accomplishments, educational attainment, business success, or family pedigree. Such individuals were members of what many Americans in the early republic agreed was a natural aristocracy. Deference shown to them dovetailed with republicanism and its emphasis on virtue, the ideal of placing the common good above narrow self-interest. Republican statesmen in the 1780s and 1790s expected and routinely received deferential treatment from others, and ordinary Americans deferred to their \u201csocial betters\u201d as a matter of course.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"390\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202421\/CNX_History_10_01_CherryTree.jpg\" alt=\"A painting depicts George Washington as a child, pointing out to his father a cherry tree with damaged bark. A hatchet lies on the ground. Washington\u2019s father smiles and places his hand on Washington\u2019s shoulder.\" width=\"390\" height=\"312\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> \u201cFather, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree\u201d (1867) by John McRae, after a painting by George Gorgas White, illustrates Mason Locke Weems\u2019s tale of Washington\u2019s honesty and integrity as revealed in the incident of the cherry tree. Although it was fiction, this story about Washington taught generations of children about the importance of virtue.[\/caption]\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm24280048\">For the generation who lived through the American Revolution, for instance, George Washington epitomized republican virtue, entitling him to great deference from his countrymen. His judgment and decisions were considered beyond reproach. An Anglican minister named Mason Locke Weems wrote the classic tale of Washington\u2019s unimpeachable virtue in his 1800 book, <em data-effect=\"italics\">The Life of Washington<\/em>. Generations of nineteenth-century American children read its fictional story of a youthful Washington chopping down one of his father\u2019s cherry trees and, when confronted by his father, confessing: \u201cI cannot tell a lie.\u201d\u00a0The story spoke to Washington\u2019s unflinching honesty and integrity, encouraging readers to remember the deference owed to such towering national figures.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp271083904\">Washington and those who celebrated his role as president established a standard for elite, virtuous leadership that cast a long shadow over subsequent presidential administrations. The presidents who followed Washington shared the first president\u2019s pedigree. With the exception of John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, all the early presidents\u2014Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe\u2014were members of Virginia\u2019s elite slaveholder aristocracy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/section><section id=\"fs-idm89046736\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">DEMOCRATIC REFORMS<\/h1>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp119739744\">In the early 1820s, deference to pedigree began to wane in American society. A new type of deference\u2014to the will of the majority and not to a ruling class\u2014took hold. The spirit of democratic reform became most evident in the widespread belief that all white men, regardless of whether they owned property, had the right to participate in elections.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm133881296\">Before the 1820s, many state constitutions had imposed property qualifications for voting as a means to keep democratic tendencies in check. However, as Federalist ideals fell out of favor, ordinary men from the middle and lower classes increasingly questioned the idea that property ownership was an indication of virtue. They argued for <span data-type=\"term\">universal manhood suffrage<\/span>, or voting rights for all white male adults.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp126685360\">New states adopted constitutions that did not contain property qualifications for voting, a move designed to stimulate migration across their borders. Vermont and Kentucky, admitted to the Union in 1791 and 1792 respectively, granted the right to vote to all white men regardless of whether they owned property or paid taxes. Ohio\u2019s state constitution placed a minor taxpaying requirement on voters but otherwise allowed for expansive white male suffrage. Alabama, admitted to the Union in 1819, eliminated property qualifications for voting in its state constitution. Two other new states, Indiana (1816) and Illinois (1818), also extended the right to vote to white men regardless of property. Initially, the new state of Mississippi (1817) restricted voting to white male property holders, but in 1832 it eliminated this provision.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp77237184\">In Connecticut, Federalist power largely collapsed in 1818 when the state held a constitutional convention. The new constitution granted the right to vote to all white men who paid taxes or served in the militia. Similarly, New York amended its state constitution in 1821\u20131822 and removed the property qualifications for voting.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm200319888\">Expanded voting rights did not extend to women, Indians, or free blacks in the North. Indeed, race replaced property qualifications as the criterion for voting rights. American democracy had a decidedly racist orientation; a white majority limited the rights of black minorities. New Jersey explicitly restricted the right to vote to white men only. Connecticut passed a law in 1814 taking the right to vote away from free black men and restricting suffrage to white men only. By the 1820s, 80 percent of the white male population could vote in New York State elections. No other state had expanded suffrage so dramatically. At the same time, however, New York effectively disenfranchised free black men in 1822 (black men had had the right to vote under the 1777 constitution) by requiring that \u201cmen of color\u201d must possess property over the value of $250.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/section><section id=\"fs-idp128138912\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">PARTY POLITICS AND THE ELECTION OF 1824<\/h1>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm14850688\">In addition to expanding white men\u2019s right to vote, democratic currents also led to a new style of political party organization, most evident in New York State in the years after the War of 1812. Under the leadership of Martin Van Buren, New York\u2019s \u201cBucktail\u201d Republican faction (so named because members wore a deer\u2019s tail on their hats, a symbol of membership in the Tammany Society) gained political power by cultivating loyalty to the will of the majority, not to an elite family or renowned figure. The <span class=\"no-emphasis\" data-type=\"term\">Bucktails<\/span> emphasized a pragmatic approach. For example, at first they opposed the Erie Canal project, but when the popularity of the massive transportation venture became clear, they supported it.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm42163344\">One of the Bucktails\u2019 greatest achievements in New York came in the form of revisions to the state constitution in the 1820s. Under the original constitution, a Council of Appointments selected local officials such as sheriffs and county clerks. The Bucktails replaced this process with a system of direct elections, which meant thousands of jobs immediately became available to candidates who had the support of the majority. In practice, Van Buren\u2019s party could nominate and support their own candidates based on their loyalty to the party. In this way, Van Buren helped create a political machine of disciplined party members who prized loyalty above all else, a harbinger of future patronage politics in the United States. This system of rewarding party loyalists is known as the <span data-type=\"term\">spoils system<\/span> (from the expression, \u201cTo the victor belong the spoils\u201d). Van Buren\u2019s political machine helped radically transform New York politics.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm152774880\">Party politics also transformed the national political landscape, and the election of 1824 proved a turning point in American politics. With tens of thousands of new voters, the older system of having members of Congress form congressional caucuses to determine who would run no longer worked. The new voters had regional interests and voted on them. For the first time, the popular vote mattered in a presidential election. Electors were chosen by popular vote in eighteen states, while the six remaining states used the older system in which state legislatures chose electors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"520\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202423\/CNX_History_10_01_Elect1824.jpg\" alt=\"Two portraits depict Andrew Jackson (a) and John Quincy Adams (b).\" width=\"520\" height=\"344\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> The two most popular presidential candidates in the election of 1824 were Andrew Jackson (a), who won the popular vote but failed to secure the requisite number of votes in the Electoral College, and John Quincy Adams (b), who emerged victorious after a contentious vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.[\/caption]\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm109583040\">With the caucus system defunct, the presidential election of 1824 featured five candidates, all of whom ran as Democratic-Republicans (the Federalists having ceased to be a national political force). The crowded field included John Quincy Adams, the son of the second president, John Adams. Candidate Adams had broken with the Federalists in the early 1800s and served on various diplomatic missions, including the mission to secure peace with Great Britain in 1814. He represented New England. A second candidate, John C. Calhoun from South Carolina, had served as secretary of war and represented the slaveholding South. He dropped out of the presidential race to run for vice president. A third candidate, Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, hailed from Kentucky and represented the western states. He favored an active federal government committed to internal improvements, such as roads and canals, to bolster national economic development and settlement of the West. William H. Crawford, a slaveholder from Georgia, suffered a stroke in 1823 that left him largely incapacitated, but he ran nonetheless and had the backing of the New York machine headed by Van Buren. Andrew Jackson, the famed \u201chero of New Orleans,\u201d rounded out the field. Jackson had very little formal education, but he was popular for his military victories in the War of 1812 and in wars against the Creek and the Seminole. He had been elected to the Senate in 1823, and his popularity soared as pro-Jackson newspapers sang the praises of the courage and daring of the Tennessee slaveholder.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"520\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202424\/CNX_History_10_01_Corrupt.jpg\" alt=\"Two portraits depict John C. Calhoun (a) and Henry Clay (b).\" width=\"520\" height=\"330\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> John C. Calhoun (a) believed that the assistance Henry Clay (b) gave to John Quincy Adams in the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 vote to decide the presidential election of 1824 indicated that a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d had been made.[\/caption]\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm305885344\">Results from the eighteen states where the popular vote determined the electoral vote gave Jackson the election, with 152,901 votes to Adams\u2019s 114,023, Clay\u2019s 47,217, and Crawford\u2019s 46,979. The Electoral College, however, was another matter. Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or better to win but secured only 99. Adams won 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37. Because Jackson did not receive a majority vote from the Electoral College, the election was decided following the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, which stipulated that when a candidate did not receive a majority of electoral votes, the election went to the House of Representatives, where each state would provide one vote. House Speaker Clay did not want to see his rival, Jackson, become president and therefore worked within the House to secure the presidency for Adams, convincing many to cast their vote for the New Englander. Clay\u2019s efforts paid off; despite not having won the popular vote, John Quincy Adams was certified by the House as the next president. Once in office, he elevated Henry Clay to the post of secretary of state.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm286214016\">Jackson and his supporters cried foul. To them, the election of Adams reeked of anti-democratic corruption. So too did the appointment of Clay as secretary of state. John C. Calhoun labeled the whole affair a \u201c<span data-type=\"term\">corrupt bargain.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0Everywhere, Jackson supporters vowed revenge against the anti-majoritarian result of 1824.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/section><section id=\"fs-idp7525920\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS<\/h1>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm31844288\">Secretary of State Clay championed what was known as the <span data-type=\"term\">American System<\/span> of high tariffs, a national bank, and federally sponsored internal improvements of canals and roads. Once in office, President Adams embraced Clay\u2019s American System and proposed a national university and naval academy to train future leaders of the republic. The president\u2019s opponents smelled elitism in these proposals and pounced on what they viewed as the administration\u2019s catering to a small privileged class at the expense of ordinary citizens.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp164991760\">Clay also envisioned a broad range of internal transportation improvements. Using the proceeds from land sales in the West, Adams endorsed the creation of roads and canals to facilitate commerce and the advance of settlement in the West. Many in Congress vigorously opposed federal funding of internal improvements, citing among other reasons that the Constitution did not give the federal government the power to fund these projects. However, in the end, Adams succeeded in extending the Cumberland Road into Ohio (a federal highway project). He also broke ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on July 4, 1828.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/infrastructure\/back0103.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland Road Project<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/wash\/dc6.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park<\/a> to learn more about transportation developments in the first half of the nineteenth century. How were these two projects important for westward expansion?<\/div>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp133045952\">Tariffs, which both Clay and Adams promoted, were not a novel idea; since the birth of the republic they had been seen as a way to advance domestic manufacturing by making imports more expensive. Congress had approved a tariff in 1789, for instance, and Alexander Hamilton had proposed a protective tariff in 1790. Congress also passed tariffs in 1816 and 1824. Clay spearheaded the drive for the federal government to impose high tariffs to help bolster domestic manufacturing. If imported goods were more expensive than domestic goods, then people would buy American-made goods.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp305212896\">President Adams wished to promote manufacturing, especially in his home region of New England. To that end, in 1828 he proposed a high tariff on imported goods, amounting to 50 percent of their value. The tariff raised questions about how power should be distributed, causing a fiery debate between those who supported states\u2019 rights and those who supported the expanded power of the federal government. Those who championed states\u2019 rights denounced the 1828 measure as the <span data-type=\"term\">Tariff of Abominations<\/span>, clear evidence that the federal government favored one region, in this case the North, over another, the South. They made their case by pointing out that the North had an expanding manufacturing base while the South did not. Therefore, the South imported far more manufactured goods than the North, causing the tariff to fall most heavily on the southern states.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"CNX_History_10_01_Monkeys\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"390\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202425\/CNX_History_10_01_Monkeys.jpg\" alt=\"A political cartoon depicts four caged monkeys labeled \u201cHome,\u201d \u201cConsumption,\u201d \u201cInternal,\u201d and \u201cImprov\u201d stealing each other\u2019s food. Henry Clay, in the foreground, says, \u201cWalk in! Walk in! and see the new improved grand original American System!\u201d A seated organ grinder says, \u201c\u202f\u2018Hail Columbia\u2019 happy land!\u201d as another man walks in saying, \u201cWhat a humbug!\u201d\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/> The Monkey System or \u2018Every one for himself at the expense of his neighbor!!!!!!!!\u2019 (1831) critiqued Henry Clay\u2019s proposed tariff and system of internal improvements. In this political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay, four caged monkeys labeled \u201cHome,\u201d \u201cConsumption,\u201d \u201cInternal,\u201d and \u201cImprov\u201d (improvements)\u2014different parts of the nation\u2019s economy\u2014steal each other\u2019s food while Henry Clay, in the foreground, extols the virtues of his \u201cgrand original American System.\u201d (credit: Project Gutenberg Archives)[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm223822464\">The 1828 tariff generated additional fears among southerners. In particular, it suggested to them that the federal government would unilaterally take steps that hurt the South. This line of reasoning led some southerners to fear that the very foundation of the South\u2014slavery\u2014could come under attack from a hostile northern majority in Congress. The spokesman for this southern view was President Adams\u2019s vice president, John C. Calhoun.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"fs-idp254856256\" class=\"history defining-american\" data-type=\"note\" data-label=\"Defining American\">\r\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">John C. Calhoun on the Tariff of 1828<\/h2>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp258247040\">Vice President John C. Calhoun, angry about the passage of the Tariff of 1828, anonymously wrote a report titled \u201cSouth Carolina Exposition and Protest\u201d (later known as \u201cCalhoun\u2019s Exposition\u201d) for the South Carolina legislature. As a native of South Carolina, Calhoun articulated the fear among many southerners that the federal government could exercise undue power over the states.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote id=\"fs-idp5088304\">\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nIf it be conceded, as it must be by every one who is the least conversant with our institutions, that the sovereign powers delegated are divided between the General and State Governments, and that the latter hold their portion by the same tenure as the former, it would seem impossible to deny to the States the right of deciding on the infractions of their powers, and the proper remedy to be applied for their correction. The right of judging, in such cases, is an essential attribute of sovereignty, of which the States cannot be divested without losing their sovereignty itself, and being reduced to a subordinate corporate condition. In fact, to divide power, and to give to one of the parties the exclusive right of judging of the portion allotted to each, is, in reality, not to divide it at all; and to reserve such exclusive right to the General Government (it matters not by what department) to be exercised, is to convert it, in fact, into a great consolidated government, with unlimited powers, and to divest the States, in reality, of all their rights, It is impossible to understand the force of terms, and to deny so plain a conclusion.\r\n\r\n\u2014John C. Calhoun, \u201cSouth Carolina Exposition and Protest,\u201d 1828\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm1195872\">What is Calhoun\u2019s main point of protest? What does he say about the sovereignty of the states?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section><section id=\"fs-idm23683072\" class=\"summary\" data-depth=\"1\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox\" data-type=\"title\">\r\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">Section Summary<\/h1>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idm201428672\">The early 1800s saw an age of deference give way to universal manhood suffrage and a new type of political organization based on loyalty to the party. The election of 1824 was a fight among Democratic-Republicans that ended up pitting southerner Andrew Jackson against northerner John Quincy Adams. When Adams won through political negotiations in the House of Representatives, Jackson\u2019s supporters derided the election as a \u201ccorrupt bargain.\u201d The Tariff of 1828 further stirred southern sentiment, this time against a perceived bias in the federal government toward northeastern manufacturers. At the same time, the tariff stirred deeper fears that the federal government might take steps that could undermine the system of slavery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.openassessments.org\/assessments\/972<\/section>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-info\">\r\n<h3>Review Questions<\/h3>\r\n<section>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Why did Andrew Jackson and his supporters consider the election of John Quincy Adams to be a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Who stood to gain from the Tariff of Abominations, and who expected to lose by it?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-info\">\r\n<h3>Answers to Review Questions<\/h3>\r\n<section>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Jackson and his supporters resented Speaker Henry Clay\u2019s maneuvering in the House of Representatives, which gave Adams the election even though Jackson had won the popular vote. When Adams, after taking office, gave Clay the post of secretary of state, it seemed that Adams was rewarding Clay\u2014perhaps even fulfilling the terms of a secret bargain.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Northern manufacturers were expected to gain from the tariff because it made competing goods from abroad more expensive than those they made. Southern plantation owners expected the tariff would be costly for them, because it raised the price of goods they could only import. Southerners also feared the tariff represented an unwelcome expansion of federal power over the states.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-success\"><section>\r\n<h3>Glossary<\/h3>\r\n<strong>American System\u00a0<\/strong>the program of federally sponsored roads and canals, protective tariffs, and a national bank advocated by Henry Clay and enacted by President Adams\r\n\r\n<strong>code of deference\u00a0<\/strong>the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through accomplishments or birth\r\n\r\n<strong>corrupt bargain\u00a0<\/strong>the term that Andrew Jackson\u2019s supporters applied to John Quincy Adams\u2019s 1824 election, which had occurred through the machinations of Henry Clay in the U.S. House of Representatives\r\n\r\n<strong>spoils system\u00a0<\/strong>the political system of rewarding friends and supporters with political appointments\r\n\r\n<strong>Tariff of Abominations\u00a0<\/strong>a federal tariff introduced in 1828 that placed a high duty on imported goods in order to help American manufacturers, which southerners viewed as unfair and harmful to their region\r\n\r\n<strong>universal manhood suffrage\u00a0<\/strong>voting rights for all male adults\r\n\r\n<\/section><\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<p>By the end of this section, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"im_orderedlist\">\n<li>Explain and illustrate the new style of American politics in the 1820s<\/li>\n<li>Describe the policies of John Quincy Adams\u2019s presidency and explain the political divisions that resulted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"CNX_History_10_01_Timeline\" class=\"timeline\"><span id=\"fs-idm117073552\" data-type=\"media\" data-alt=\"A timeline shows important events of the era. In 1824, John Quincy Adams is elected president in a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d; a portrait of Adams is shown. In 1828, the \u201cTariff of Abominations\u201d protects northern manufacturers, and Andrew Jackson wins the popular and electoral votes; a portrait of Jackson is shown. In 1830, Congress passes the Indian Removal Act; a portrait of Sauk chief Black Hawk is shown. In 1832, the Nullification Crisis risks violent secession, and President Jackson vetoes the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States. In 1834, the Whig Party forms in opposition to the Democratic Party. In 1837, a financial panic prompts an extended recession. In 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is elected president; a portrait of Harrison is shown.\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202420\/CNX_History_10_01_Timeline.jpg\" alt=\"A timeline shows important events of the era. In 1824, John Quincy Adams is elected president in a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d; a portrait of Adams is shown. In 1828, the \u201cTariff of Abominations\u201d protects northern manufacturers, and Andrew Jackson wins the popular and electoral votes; a portrait of Jackson is shown. In 1830, Congress passes the Indian Removal Act; a portrait of Sauk chief Black Hawk is shown. In 1832, the Nullification Crisis risks violent secession, and President Jackson vetoes the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States. In 1834, the Whig Party forms in opposition to the Democratic Party. In 1837, a financial panic prompts an extended recession. In 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is elected president; a portrait of Harrison is shown.\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p id=\"fs-idm142980208\">In the 1820s, American political culture gave way to the democratic urges of the citizenry. Political leaders and parties rose to popularity by championing the will of the people, pushing the country toward a future in which a wider swath of citizens gained a political voice. However, this expansion of political power was limited to white men; women, free blacks, and Indians remained\u2014or grew increasingly\u2014disenfranchised by the American political system.<\/p>\n<section id=\"fs-idm210148656\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">THE DECLINE OF FEDERALISM<\/h1>\n<p id=\"fs-idm211421888\">The first party system in the United States shaped the political contest between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. The Federalists, led by Washington, Hamilton, and Adams, dominated American politics in the 1790s. After the election of Thomas Jefferson\u2014the Revolution of 1800\u2014the Democratic-Republicans gained ascendance. The gradual decline of the Federalist Party is evident in its losses in the presidential contests that occurred between 1800 and 1820. After 1816, in which Democratic-Republican James Monroe defeated his Federalist rival Rufus King, the Federalists never ran another presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm217632096\">Before the 1820s, a <span data-type=\"term\">code of deference<\/span> had underwritten the republic\u2019s political order. Deference was the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through military accomplishments, educational attainment, business success, or family pedigree. Such individuals were members of what many Americans in the early republic agreed was a natural aristocracy. Deference shown to them dovetailed with republicanism and its emphasis on virtue, the ideal of placing the common good above narrow self-interest. Republican statesmen in the 1780s and 1790s expected and routinely received deferential treatment from others, and ordinary Americans deferred to their \u201csocial betters\u201d as a matter of course.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202421\/CNX_History_10_01_CherryTree.jpg\" alt=\"A painting depicts George Washington as a child, pointing out to his father a cherry tree with damaged bark. A hatchet lies on the ground. Washington\u2019s father smiles and places his hand on Washington\u2019s shoulder.\" width=\"390\" height=\"312\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cFather, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree\u201d (1867) by John McRae, after a painting by George Gorgas White, illustrates Mason Locke Weems\u2019s tale of Washington\u2019s honesty and integrity as revealed in the incident of the cherry tree. Although it was fiction, this story about Washington taught generations of children about the importance of virtue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idm24280048\">For the generation who lived through the American Revolution, for instance, George Washington epitomized republican virtue, entitling him to great deference from his countrymen. His judgment and decisions were considered beyond reproach. An Anglican minister named Mason Locke Weems wrote the classic tale of Washington\u2019s unimpeachable virtue in his 1800 book, <em data-effect=\"italics\">The Life of Washington<\/em>. Generations of nineteenth-century American children read its fictional story of a youthful Washington chopping down one of his father\u2019s cherry trees and, when confronted by his father, confessing: \u201cI cannot tell a lie.\u201d\u00a0The story spoke to Washington\u2019s unflinching honesty and integrity, encouraging readers to remember the deference owed to such towering national figures.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp271083904\">Washington and those who celebrated his role as president established a standard for elite, virtuous leadership that cast a long shadow over subsequent presidential administrations. The presidents who followed Washington shared the first president\u2019s pedigree. With the exception of John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, all the early presidents\u2014Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe\u2014were members of Virginia\u2019s elite slaveholder aristocracy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"fs-idm89046736\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">DEMOCRATIC REFORMS<\/h1>\n<p id=\"fs-idp119739744\">In the early 1820s, deference to pedigree began to wane in American society. A new type of deference\u2014to the will of the majority and not to a ruling class\u2014took hold. The spirit of democratic reform became most evident in the widespread belief that all white men, regardless of whether they owned property, had the right to participate in elections.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm133881296\">Before the 1820s, many state constitutions had imposed property qualifications for voting as a means to keep democratic tendencies in check. However, as Federalist ideals fell out of favor, ordinary men from the middle and lower classes increasingly questioned the idea that property ownership was an indication of virtue. They argued for <span data-type=\"term\">universal manhood suffrage<\/span>, or voting rights for all white male adults.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp126685360\">New states adopted constitutions that did not contain property qualifications for voting, a move designed to stimulate migration across their borders. Vermont and Kentucky, admitted to the Union in 1791 and 1792 respectively, granted the right to vote to all white men regardless of whether they owned property or paid taxes. Ohio\u2019s state constitution placed a minor taxpaying requirement on voters but otherwise allowed for expansive white male suffrage. Alabama, admitted to the Union in 1819, eliminated property qualifications for voting in its state constitution. Two other new states, Indiana (1816) and Illinois (1818), also extended the right to vote to white men regardless of property. Initially, the new state of Mississippi (1817) restricted voting to white male property holders, but in 1832 it eliminated this provision.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp77237184\">In Connecticut, Federalist power largely collapsed in 1818 when the state held a constitutional convention. The new constitution granted the right to vote to all white men who paid taxes or served in the militia. Similarly, New York amended its state constitution in 1821\u20131822 and removed the property qualifications for voting.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm200319888\">Expanded voting rights did not extend to women, Indians, or free blacks in the North. Indeed, race replaced property qualifications as the criterion for voting rights. American democracy had a decidedly racist orientation; a white majority limited the rights of black minorities. New Jersey explicitly restricted the right to vote to white men only. Connecticut passed a law in 1814 taking the right to vote away from free black men and restricting suffrage to white men only. By the 1820s, 80 percent of the white male population could vote in New York State elections. No other state had expanded suffrage so dramatically. At the same time, however, New York effectively disenfranchised free black men in 1822 (black men had had the right to vote under the 1777 constitution) by requiring that \u201cmen of color\u201d must possess property over the value of $250.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"fs-idp128138912\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">PARTY POLITICS AND THE ELECTION OF 1824<\/h1>\n<p id=\"fs-idm14850688\">In addition to expanding white men\u2019s right to vote, democratic currents also led to a new style of political party organization, most evident in New York State in the years after the War of 1812. Under the leadership of Martin Van Buren, New York\u2019s \u201cBucktail\u201d Republican faction (so named because members wore a deer\u2019s tail on their hats, a symbol of membership in the Tammany Society) gained political power by cultivating loyalty to the will of the majority, not to an elite family or renowned figure. The <span class=\"no-emphasis\" data-type=\"term\">Bucktails<\/span> emphasized a pragmatic approach. For example, at first they opposed the Erie Canal project, but when the popularity of the massive transportation venture became clear, they supported it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm42163344\">One of the Bucktails\u2019 greatest achievements in New York came in the form of revisions to the state constitution in the 1820s. Under the original constitution, a Council of Appointments selected local officials such as sheriffs and county clerks. The Bucktails replaced this process with a system of direct elections, which meant thousands of jobs immediately became available to candidates who had the support of the majority. In practice, Van Buren\u2019s party could nominate and support their own candidates based on their loyalty to the party. In this way, Van Buren helped create a political machine of disciplined party members who prized loyalty above all else, a harbinger of future patronage politics in the United States. This system of rewarding party loyalists is known as the <span data-type=\"term\">spoils system<\/span> (from the expression, \u201cTo the victor belong the spoils\u201d). Van Buren\u2019s political machine helped radically transform New York politics.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm152774880\">Party politics also transformed the national political landscape, and the election of 1824 proved a turning point in American politics. With tens of thousands of new voters, the older system of having members of Congress form congressional caucuses to determine who would run no longer worked. The new voters had regional interests and voted on them. For the first time, the popular vote mattered in a presidential election. Electors were chosen by popular vote in eighteen states, while the six remaining states used the older system in which state legislatures chose electors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202423\/CNX_History_10_01_Elect1824.jpg\" alt=\"Two portraits depict Andrew Jackson (a) and John Quincy Adams (b).\" width=\"520\" height=\"344\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two most popular presidential candidates in the election of 1824 were Andrew Jackson (a), who won the popular vote but failed to secure the requisite number of votes in the Electoral College, and John Quincy Adams (b), who emerged victorious after a contentious vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idm109583040\">With the caucus system defunct, the presidential election of 1824 featured five candidates, all of whom ran as Democratic-Republicans (the Federalists having ceased to be a national political force). The crowded field included John Quincy Adams, the son of the second president, John Adams. Candidate Adams had broken with the Federalists in the early 1800s and served on various diplomatic missions, including the mission to secure peace with Great Britain in 1814. He represented New England. A second candidate, John C. Calhoun from South Carolina, had served as secretary of war and represented the slaveholding South. He dropped out of the presidential race to run for vice president. A third candidate, Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, hailed from Kentucky and represented the western states. He favored an active federal government committed to internal improvements, such as roads and canals, to bolster national economic development and settlement of the West. William H. Crawford, a slaveholder from Georgia, suffered a stroke in 1823 that left him largely incapacitated, but he ran nonetheless and had the backing of the New York machine headed by Van Buren. Andrew Jackson, the famed \u201chero of New Orleans,\u201d rounded out the field. Jackson had very little formal education, but he was popular for his military victories in the War of 1812 and in wars against the Creek and the Seminole. He had been elected to the Senate in 1823, and his popularity soared as pro-Jackson newspapers sang the praises of the courage and daring of the Tennessee slaveholder.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202424\/CNX_History_10_01_Corrupt.jpg\" alt=\"Two portraits depict John C. Calhoun (a) and Henry Clay (b).\" width=\"520\" height=\"330\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John C. Calhoun (a) believed that the assistance Henry Clay (b) gave to John Quincy Adams in the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 vote to decide the presidential election of 1824 indicated that a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d had been made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idm305885344\">Results from the eighteen states where the popular vote determined the electoral vote gave Jackson the election, with 152,901 votes to Adams\u2019s 114,023, Clay\u2019s 47,217, and Crawford\u2019s 46,979. The Electoral College, however, was another matter. Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or better to win but secured only 99. Adams won 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37. Because Jackson did not receive a majority vote from the Electoral College, the election was decided following the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, which stipulated that when a candidate did not receive a majority of electoral votes, the election went to the House of Representatives, where each state would provide one vote. House Speaker Clay did not want to see his rival, Jackson, become president and therefore worked within the House to secure the presidency for Adams, convincing many to cast their vote for the New Englander. Clay\u2019s efforts paid off; despite not having won the popular vote, John Quincy Adams was certified by the House as the next president. Once in office, he elevated Henry Clay to the post of secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idm286214016\">Jackson and his supporters cried foul. To them, the election of Adams reeked of anti-democratic corruption. So too did the appointment of Clay as secretary of state. John C. Calhoun labeled the whole affair a \u201c<span data-type=\"term\">corrupt bargain.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0Everywhere, Jackson supporters vowed revenge against the anti-majoritarian result of 1824.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"fs-idp7525920\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS<\/h1>\n<p id=\"fs-idm31844288\">Secretary of State Clay championed what was known as the <span data-type=\"term\">American System<\/span> of high tariffs, a national bank, and federally sponsored internal improvements of canals and roads. Once in office, President Adams embraced Clay\u2019s American System and proposed a national university and naval academy to train future leaders of the republic. The president\u2019s opponents smelled elitism in these proposals and pounced on what they viewed as the administration\u2019s catering to a small privileged class at the expense of ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp164991760\">Clay also envisioned a broad range of internal transportation improvements. Using the proceeds from land sales in the West, Adams endorsed the creation of roads and canals to facilitate commerce and the advance of settlement in the West. Many in Congress vigorously opposed federal funding of internal improvements, citing among other reasons that the Constitution did not give the federal government the power to fund these projects. However, in the end, Adams succeeded in extending the Cumberland Road into Ohio (a federal highway project). He also broke ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on July 4, 1828.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/infrastructure\/back0103.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland Road Project<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/wash\/dc6.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park<\/a> to learn more about transportation developments in the first half of the nineteenth century. How were these two projects important for westward expansion?<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idp133045952\">Tariffs, which both Clay and Adams promoted, were not a novel idea; since the birth of the republic they had been seen as a way to advance domestic manufacturing by making imports more expensive. Congress had approved a tariff in 1789, for instance, and Alexander Hamilton had proposed a protective tariff in 1790. Congress also passed tariffs in 1816 and 1824. Clay spearheaded the drive for the federal government to impose high tariffs to help bolster domestic manufacturing. If imported goods were more expensive than domestic goods, then people would buy American-made goods.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fs-idp305212896\">President Adams wished to promote manufacturing, especially in his home region of New England. To that end, in 1828 he proposed a high tariff on imported goods, amounting to 50 percent of their value. The tariff raised questions about how power should be distributed, causing a fiery debate between those who supported states\u2019 rights and those who supported the expanded power of the federal government. Those who championed states\u2019 rights denounced the 1828 measure as the <span data-type=\"term\">Tariff of Abominations<\/span>, clear evidence that the federal government favored one region, in this case the North, over another, the South. They made their case by pointing out that the North had an expanding manufacturing base while the South did not. Therefore, the South imported far more manufactured goods than the North, causing the tariff to fall most heavily on the southern states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"CNX_History_10_01_Monkeys\">\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/883\/2015\/08\/23202425\/CNX_History_10_01_Monkeys.jpg\" alt=\"A political cartoon depicts four caged monkeys labeled \u201cHome,\u201d \u201cConsumption,\u201d \u201cInternal,\u201d and \u201cImprov\u201d stealing each other\u2019s food. Henry Clay, in the foreground, says, \u201cWalk in! Walk in! and see the new improved grand original American System!\u201d A seated organ grinder says, \u201c\u202f\u2018Hail Columbia\u2019 happy land!\u201d as another man walks in saying, \u201cWhat a humbug!\u201d\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monkey System or \u2018Every one for himself at the expense of his neighbor!!!!!!!!\u2019 (1831) critiqued Henry Clay\u2019s proposed tariff and system of internal improvements. In this political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay, four caged monkeys labeled \u201cHome,\u201d \u201cConsumption,\u201d \u201cInternal,\u201d and \u201cImprov\u201d (improvements)\u2014different parts of the nation\u2019s economy\u2014steal each other\u2019s food while Henry Clay, in the foreground, extols the virtues of his \u201cgrand original American System.\u201d (credit: Project Gutenberg Archives)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"fs-idm223822464\">The 1828 tariff generated additional fears among southerners. In particular, it suggested to them that the federal government would unilaterally take steps that hurt the South. This line of reasoning led some southerners to fear that the very foundation of the South\u2014slavery\u2014could come under attack from a hostile northern majority in Congress. The spokesman for this southern view was President Adams\u2019s vice president, John C. Calhoun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fs-idp254856256\" class=\"history defining-american\" data-type=\"note\" data-label=\"Defining American\">\n<h2 data-type=\"title\">John C. Calhoun on the Tariff of 1828<\/h2>\n<p id=\"fs-idp258247040\">Vice President John C. Calhoun, angry about the passage of the Tariff of 1828, anonymously wrote a report titled \u201cSouth Carolina Exposition and Protest\u201d (later known as \u201cCalhoun\u2019s Exposition\u201d) for the South Carolina legislature. As a native of South Carolina, Calhoun articulated the fear among many southerners that the federal government could exercise undue power over the states.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"fs-idp5088304\">\n<div>\n<p>If it be conceded, as it must be by every one who is the least conversant with our institutions, that the sovereign powers delegated are divided between the General and State Governments, and that the latter hold their portion by the same tenure as the former, it would seem impossible to deny to the States the right of deciding on the infractions of their powers, and the proper remedy to be applied for their correction. The right of judging, in such cases, is an essential attribute of sovereignty, of which the States cannot be divested without losing their sovereignty itself, and being reduced to a subordinate corporate condition. In fact, to divide power, and to give to one of the parties the exclusive right of judging of the portion allotted to each, is, in reality, not to divide it at all; and to reserve such exclusive right to the General Government (it matters not by what department) to be exercised, is to convert it, in fact, into a great consolidated government, with unlimited powers, and to divest the States, in reality, of all their rights, It is impossible to understand the force of terms, and to deny so plain a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014John C. Calhoun, \u201cSouth Carolina Exposition and Protest,\u201d 1828<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"fs-idm1195872\">What is Calhoun\u2019s main point of protest? What does he say about the sovereignty of the states?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"fs-idm23683072\" class=\"summary\" data-depth=\"1\">\n<div class=\"textbox\" data-type=\"title\">\n<h1 data-type=\"title\">Section Summary<\/h1>\n<p id=\"fs-idm201428672\">The early 1800s saw an age of deference give way to universal manhood suffrage and a new type of political organization based on loyalty to the party. The election of 1824 was a fight among Democratic-Republicans that ended up pitting southerner Andrew Jackson against northerner John Quincy Adams. When Adams won through political negotiations in the House of Representatives, Jackson\u2019s supporters derided the election as a \u201ccorrupt bargain.\u201d The Tariff of 1828 further stirred southern sentiment, this time against a perceived bias in the federal government toward northeastern manufacturers. At the same time, the tariff stirred deeper fears that the federal government might take steps that could undermine the system of slavery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>https:\/\/www.openassessments.org\/assessments\/972<\/p>\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-info\">\n<h3>Review Questions<\/h3>\n<section>\n<ol>\n<li>Why did Andrew Jackson and his supporters consider the election of John Quincy Adams to be a \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Who stood to gain from the Tariff of Abominations, and who expected to lose by it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-info\">\n<h3>Answers to Review Questions<\/h3>\n<section>\n<ol>\n<li>Jackson and his supporters resented Speaker Henry Clay\u2019s maneuvering in the House of Representatives, which gave Adams the election even though Jackson had won the popular vote. When Adams, after taking office, gave Clay the post of secretary of state, it seemed that Adams was rewarding Clay\u2014perhaps even fulfilling the terms of a secret bargain.<\/li>\n<li>Northern manufacturers were expected to gain from the tariff because it made competing goods from abroad more expensive than those they made. Southern plantation owners expected the tariff would be costly for them, because it raised the price of goods they could only import. Southerners also feared the tariff represented an unwelcome expansion of federal power over the states.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-success\">\n<section>\n<h3>Glossary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>American System\u00a0<\/strong>the program of federally sponsored roads and canals, protective tariffs, and a national bank advocated by Henry Clay and enacted by President Adams<\/p>\n<p><strong>code of deference\u00a0<\/strong>the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through accomplishments or birth<\/p>\n<p><strong>corrupt bargain\u00a0<\/strong>the term that Andrew Jackson\u2019s supporters applied to John Quincy Adams\u2019s 1824 election, which had occurred through the machinations of Henry Clay in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>spoils system\u00a0<\/strong>the political system of rewarding friends and supporters with political appointments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tariff of Abominations\u00a0<\/strong>a federal tariff introduced in 1828 that placed a high duty on imported goods in order to help American manufacturers, which southerners viewed as unfair and harmful to their region<\/p>\n<p><strong>universal manhood suffrage\u00a0<\/strong>voting rights for all male adults<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-304\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>US History. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: P. 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