Andrew Jackson Timeline
The Battle of New Orleans (1815) – The last battle of the War of 1812, but was actually fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war. The victory makes Jackson a national celebrity.
Election of 1824 – William Crawford, Henry Clay, John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson (Democrat) are all candidates, but no one wins a majority of electoral votes. Clay helps convince the House of Representatives to elect Adams as President.
Election of 1828 – Jackson wins the presidency in a landslide over John C. Calhoun with 56 percent of the popular vote and 178 electoral votes. Calhoun becomes Jackson’s vice-president.
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian – Of or relating to Andrew Jackson
Democracy – Government by the people; the rule of the majority
Jacksonian Democracy – An equal political system; government that also includes the “common man”
Andrew Jackson’s version of “Equality”
Expanded suffrage – Formerly only White men who owned property or paid taxes could vote. Under Jackson, more White men could vote, but women, African-Americans and Native Americans had few rights at all.
Spoils System – replacing government workers with the winning candidates supporters.
The Modern Democrats
The Democratic-Republicans split in 1824 over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe. The people who supported many of the old Jeffersonian principles (Anti-Federalists), led by Jackson and Martin Van Buren, became the Democratic Party.
Jackson was the first presidential candidate to run as a Democrat
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