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Election of 1824
The Election of 1824 marked the final collapse of the Republican-federalist political party. The winner of the electoral college was Andrew Jackson, but since no candidate recieved majority of the votes, the House of Representatives had to choose between the remaining Jackson and Adams after Crawford was eliminated. Henry Clay chose John Quincy Adams and he would become the 6th president of the united states. -
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Andrew Jackson
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Election of 1828
The Election of 1828 was a rematch between Jackson and Adams. It was said to have been the dirtiest election ever. Jackson won by a landslide with 178 electoral votes leaving Adams with only 83. Jackson became the 7th president of the united states. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Bank War
The Bank War was a long and bitter struggle waged by President Andrew Jackson in the 1830s against the Second Bank of the United States, a federal institution which Jackson sought to destroy. Jackson was very stubborn and skeptical about banks and zrgued very much with the president of the bank, Nicholas Biddle. Eventually Jackson got the bank dismandled. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina passed and Ordinance of Nullification to secede from the US is the federal government attempted to collect the tariffs tof 1828 that South Carolina saw unconstitutional. Henry Clay created a compromise that gave more power to the president in cases where states tried to seceed. It appealed to both South Carolina and the president and South Carolina did not finally secede.
