Name: Jacksonian Democracy 3
Uploaded: 2017-10-21T17:13:08.000Z
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- [Instructor] All
right, in the last video,

between John Quincy
Adams and Andrew Jackson

in which Andrew Jackson
won the popular vote

but John Quincy Adams
won the electoral vote

but then was shortly named
Secretary of State by Adams,

to claim that a corrupt
bargain had taken place.

because this sort of you scratch my back,

I'll scratch yours was common
practice in American politics

between a few elite men who were generally

that we do not need in our
nation of free white men.

So, four years later in
the election of 1828,

it is a Jackson/John Quincy Adams rematch

I mentioned that during this time period,

part of American politics
first came to the fore.

in the election of 1828,
really for the first time,

or making angry attacks
ad hominem, or at the man,

rather than at his principles,
attacks on your opponent.

John Quincy Adams kinda considered himself

Not only did they put out
handbills with coffins,

this is known as the Coffin
Handbill to this day,

detailing how many men had
been killed by Andrew Jackson,

they also accused his
mother of being a prostitute

that it was the terrible
slanders about her

This is a new party united around Jackson.

In the previous election,
all of the candidates

had been Republicans
in one form or another,

but now the Republican
Party is going to start

to fade away and the Democratic
Party will come to the fore.

that is still in existence
in the United States today.

Of course, its goals
and ideas have changed

And with his Democratic Party
and even with the supporters

of John Quincy Adams,
what Jackson taps into

He also really takes
advantage particularly

so white people who are
looking to expand westward

to kind of make it, as we
would say, rugged individuals,

people pulling themselves
up by their bootstraps

because he had been born fairly penniless.

And then, by the time he was
elected president in 1828,

he had become part of the frontier elite.

and saw the example of
what they wanted to be.

Jackson also had the
advantage of being a war hero

from the Battle of New
Orleans in the War of 1812.

And another thing that Andrew
Jackson does quite well

is harnesses anti-Indian,
anti-Native American sentiment.

John Quincy Adams had attempted
to bargain in good faith,

to try to hold up the
side of the United States

with Native American nations
living in what was then

the territorial borders
of the United States.

as if they were sovereign
nations unto themselves.

Andrew Jackson understood
that white settlers

to remove Native Americans
from those lands,

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