This "corrupt bargain" was the idea that Adams went to the House or Representatives leader, Henry Clay, who was already eliminated from the election, and promised that if Clay and his followers would cast their vote pro Adams, Adams would appoint Henry Clay as his Secretary of State. ... His followers attacked Adams (who was running too) of the "corrupt" bargaining he had allegedly made with Henry Clay during the election of 1824. ... After meeting with Henry Clay, Clay passed a bill through the House of Representatives for the re-charter of the Bank, hoping to slip it by Jackson. ... Two ye...

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These Indians were not legally removed, however, because Andrew Jackson had defied the Supreme Court ruling of Worcester v Georgia, which opposed the forced relocation of the Native American nations. ... When the Second Bank of the United States' charter was about to expire, Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster tried to get an early extension. ... These arguments allowed Jackson to win the 1832 election against Henry Clay by a landslide. ... This 'War' also destroyed the American System that Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams had worked to create. ...

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Andrew Jackson was born on Mar. 15, 1767, on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. His father died a few days before the birth of his son. Three weeks after the birth of her son Mrs. Jackson moved to the house of her brother-in-law, Mr....

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The convictions and ideals of the Jacksonian Democrats can be bestillustrated through a passage written by George Henry Evans. ... Chief Justice Roger B.Taney's opinion in the Supreme Court Case of Charles River Bridge v. ...

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