Presidential Elections
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ELECTION OF 1792
- This wasn't much of an election because government was newly established.
- Washington became president through unanimous vote.
- He was the war hero of the revolution, so he was well-liked.
- Washington promoted the idea of isolationism, or staying out of foreign affairs.
- He set up the presidential cabinet, or group of advisers to the president.
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THE ELECTION OF 1796
- First open contested election. Federalists wanted Adams and republicans wanted Jefferson.
- Jay's treaty angered republicans, who accused the federalists for being pro-British.
- The electoral votes were 71 to 68 with Adams winning.
- John Adams became the second president of the United States.
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THE ELECTION OF 1800
- John Adams ran again but the Alien and Sedition acts had angered many.
- The republicans nominated Jefferson, who campaigned against federalist taxes.
- This election revealed a flaw: there was an even amount of electoral votes.
- Both won 73 votes, so the House of Representatives had to choose.
- Jefferson won and showed a peaceful transfer of power.
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ELECTION OF 1808
- The Republican Party nominated James Madison.
- The federalists nominated Charles Pinckney.
- There was anger about the embargo act of 1807, but Madison still won easily.
- Madison assumed office right when tensions began to rise with Britain.
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ELECTION OF 1816
- Monroe won easily because only the Republican Party had power.
- The war of 1812 showed the new republican leaders the advantages of a strong government
- The Monroe presidency is often referred to as the "era of good feelings"
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THE ELECTION OF 1824
- Four candidates ran: Clay, Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Crawford.
- Clay and Jackson represented the west and the others represented the south.
- Jackson won most popular vote, but no one won majority on electoral votes.
- Clay was speaker of the House of Representatives and supported Adams.
- Adams received 13 electoral votes and won presidency.
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THE ELECTION OF 1828
- John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson.
- The campaign involved mudslinging, or criticism of the other's morals.
- Jackson portrayed himself as the common man and won 56% of the popular vote
- He also won 178 of the 261 electoral votes, clearly taking presidency.
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THE ELECTION OF 1836
- The Whigs had three presidential candidates.
- Whigs wanted industrialization and strong central government and economy.
- Martin van buren was a democrat and defeated the Whigs.
- Shortly after he took office, the panic of 1837 happened.
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THE ELECTION OF 1840
- The Whigs nominated William Henry Harrison.
- The Whigs blamed van buren for the economic depression.
- They presented him as a frontiersmen instead of a wealthy man.
- He won electoral votes 234 to 60.
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ELECTION OF 1840
- John Tyler left the democratic party over the nullification issue.
- He had the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too".
- Harrison won the election with 234 electoral votes to 60.
- Harrison died of pneumonia 32 days into office.
- Vice President John Tyler succeeded into presidency.
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THE ELECTION OF 1844
- Henry Clay was the Whig candidate and Polk was the democratic candidate.
- Polk promised to annex Texas and the northwest Oregon territory and to buy CA.
- Clay saw that Polk got support for annexation, so he started to support annexation
- This angered many and many Whigs started to support the liberty party.
- With the Whigs split, Polk easily won the election.
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THE ELECTION OF 1848
- Democrat Lewis Cass supported popular sovereignty and opposed the Wilmont proviso
- Martin van buren led the free-soil party which was against slaves in the territories.
- Zachary Taylor was a Whig candidate and avoided the whole issue.
- Ohio went to Cass and New York went to Taylor.
- When the voted were counted, Taylor won.
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THE ELECTION OF 1856
- The republicans nominated Fremont and the democrats nominated Buchanan.
- Fremont supported Kansas becoming a free state.
- Buchanan believed that to save the union you had to make concessions with the south
- Democrats campaigned that only Buchanan could save the union.
- When the votes were counted, Buchanan won the election.
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THE ELECTION OF 1860
- Northern democrats chose Douglass to run and souther democrats chose Breckinridge
- The constitutional union party chose Bell and the republicans chose Lincoln.
- The southern votes were split between Douglass and Breckinridge.
- Lincoln won without southern support.
- As soon as he won the election, many southern states seceded.
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