key words election of 1824 corrupt bargain andrew jackson king mob spoils system tariff debate and nullification crisis the bank war indian removal second party system whigs election of 1824 - end of generation of revolutionary founders, second generation of leaders beginning 5 contenders vying for presidency J.Q.Adams, son of J.A. - much like older presidents and his father henry clay, proponent of american system, eager to boost business john c calhoun - american system, rejected tariff system, eventually withdraws crawford - also a throwback, good until health problems andrew jackson - candidate of the west, significant following of the people b/c the legislators controlling electoral votes were now mostly popularly elected JQA wins even though Jackson has plurality in public and electoral college clay threw his votes to JQA b/c there was mutual hate toward Jackson jackson outraged at a "corrupt bargain", clay appointed to secretary of state jackson was "not someone to be trifled with", a couple of gun battles, beat the pants off an assassin with the assassin's own guns...(read badass) jackson from poor scots-irish family in SC, lost mother and father at early age became militia commander in tennessee hero of battle of new orleans 1828 - landslide for jackson over JQA, got votes everywhere his wife dies during his campaign, blames her death on two things, his constant campaigning, and his opponents constantly mudslinging wild party in the whitehouse after election, whitehouse trashed ruling majority scares rich people jackson gives populace a sense of empowerment, ordinary people debated about politics established spoils system, gives his friends positions uprising in SC, john c calhoun and elite decide that a tariff was unfair and decide to nullify the tariff of 1832 takes on nicholas bittle (pres of second bank of US) and clay and vetos recharter of second bank of US his way of deemphasizing monopolies and large corporations probably rolling in his grave since he's on the $20... decides he's going to remove the indians, signs "Indian Removal Act", power to take indians off their land and move them to oklahoma and Kansas cherokee, chikasaw, chocktaw, creek, seminole indians try to integrate, jackson tries to force them off, justice marshall says they have a right to the land and that jackson should enforce it, jackson gave him the finger and told him to enforce it forced march west, 3000 of 14000 die on the trip, becomes known as the trail of tears opponents refer to him as king andrew I van buuren (vp in second term), provides an other 4 years of the same 1834 - whigs emerge to oppose jackson, go find william henry harrison and ran him on the same template that jackson ran on with tweaked views dies 41 days after inaugural speech from a cold he caught during his inauguration speech won on log cabins and hard cider