THE JACKSONIAN ERA

THE ELECTION OF 1824

• John Quincy Adams won the election of 1824
• Andrew Jackson turned democrat when he lost.
• Henry Clay didn't want Jackson to win.
• He persuaded everyone to vote for Adams.
• Everyone voted for Adams

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

• John Q. Adams was the grandson of John Adams
• John Q. Adams recreated the national bank
• John Q. Adams gave permission to make canals and roads
• Adams was a democratic republican
• Adams persuaded people to change their minds on certain issues

THE ELECTION OF 1828

• Adams ran against Jackson again.
• Adams lost the reelection.
• Andrew Jackson won the election.
• Some people say he did a corrupt bargain to get elected.
• He used the spoils system a little too much. (Spoils system is when a president gets voters to vote for him for a government job.)

ANDREW JACKSON

• Andrew Jackson had a very bad temper.
• Andrew Jackson had a parrot named poll.
• Jackson's parrot learned how to cuss in English and Spanish.
• The parrot was so bad about cussing that, at Jackson's funeral they had to take poll out of the funeral place because he was cussing so much.
• Jackson re destroyed the national bank.

ANDREW JACKSON'S WAR AGAINST THE BANK

• Andrew Jackson didn't like the idea of a national bank.
• He fought the national bank that John Q. Adams recreated.
• Fighting the bank did nothing good.
• Fighting the bank killed the economy.
• He went after the president of the national bank.