Young Nation: John Quincy Adams Administration 18251829

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Issues he faced as president
• Winning a controversial election
• Continuing the American System
• Trying to expand the role of the federal
  government
• U.S. settlers demanding Native American land

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Winning controversial election of 1824.
• The Federalist party dissolved in 1820.
• Only Republican (Democratic-Republicans) ran for
  president.
• John Quincy Adams, MS
• William Crawford, GA
• Henry Clay, KY
• Andrew Jackson, TN

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Winning controversial election of 1824.
• Andrew Jackson had the most the popular votes
  the most electoral votes.
• No candidate won a majority of the electoral votes

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Winning controversial election of 1824.
• The top three vote getters were voted on by the
  House of Representatives.
• Henry Clay was eliminated because he was not in
  the top three.
• Clay Adams had a good relationship.
• Clay used his influence as Speaker of the House
  to help Adams win the election.

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Clay campaigns for Adams trashes Jackson.
I cannot believe that killing twenty-five
hundred Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies
Jackson for president.
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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Winning controversial election of 1824.
• After Adams wins, he names Clay as his secretary
  of state.
• Jacksons supporters claim that a corrupt
  bargain was made between Adams Clay.
• Jackson said that Adams stole the election.
• Jackson splits from the Republican party (short
  for Democratic-Republican party) forms the
  Democratic Party.

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Corrupt bargain?
Thanks telling the House to vote for me!
Youre welcome.
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Corrupt bargain?
Do you want to be my secretary of state?
I thought youd never ask!
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Corrupt bargain?
I got the most electoral votes popular votes.
I should have won! You guys stole the election.
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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Issues he faced as president
• Trying to expand the role of the federal
  government
• Adams tries to continue the American System.
• He tries to use federal monies for
• A national university
• Scientific research expeditions
• Promoting literature the arts

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Issues he faced as president
• U.S. settlers demanding Native American land
• Adams attempts to stop some of the efforts to
  stop American from taking Native lands illegally
• Georgia took Creek land Adams threatens to use
  federal troops to stop Georgia.
• Georgia asserted its states rights forced the
  Creeks out before Adams could do much about it.

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Young Nation John Quincy Adams Administration
(1825-1829)

• Issues he faced as president
• Adams was generally regarded as an unsuccessful
  president.
• He failed to get the people to believe he won the
  presidency legitimately.
• He was unable to get support for much of his
  federal programs for a national university, the
  arts, the sciences, literature.
• He was unsuccessful in keeping Georgia from
  forcing the Creeks out of their land.