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Three events in American political history have been called [citation needed] a corrupt bargain: the 1824 United States presidential election, the Compromise of 1877, and Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon. In all cases, Congress or the President acted against the most clearly defined legal course of action at the time, although in no ...
Jackson and his followers accused Adams and Clay of striking a "corrupt bargain", and the Jacksonians would campaign on this claim for the next four years, ultimately helping Jackson defeat Adams in 1828. Ironically, Adams offered Jackson a position in his Cabinet as Secretary of War, which Jackson declined to accept.
The House elected Adams as president. Jackson denounced the House vote as the result of an alleged "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Clay, who became Adams's Secretary of State after the latter succeeded outgoing President James Monroe in March 1825. [3]
Jackson's supporters alleged that there was a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Clay and began creating a new political coalition that became the Democratic Party in the 1830s. Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide despite issues such as his slave trading and his 'irregular' marriage. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act
View of Elk River (North Carolina–Tennessee) (Photo: M. Berera, 2022). During his first months living in the Watauga District near the present-day border between North Carolina and Tennessee, in "summer or early fall 1788," Jackson organized and publicized a half-mile race at the semicircular Greasy Cove racetrack in what is now Unicoi County, pitting his racehorse against one fielded by Col ...
Dr. Daniel Feller, professor of history and editor/director, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, reads a passage in 2016 from the 13th volume, a thick book covering the year of 1831.
Jackson, who had finished with the most electoral votes in the initial run, considered Adams' election a "corrupt bargain". Scott's decision to vote for Adams proved unpopular in Missouri, and he lost his bid for re-election in 1826. Jackson defeated Adams in the 1828 United States presidential election.
The choice enraged Jackson supporters, who claimed that a “corrupt bargain” had taken place, orchestrated by the lobbying efforts of Kentucky Representative Henry Clay. When Clay accepted ...