It is historian James MacGregor Burns's thesis that if a political competition was reduced to the conflict of outs against ins, it was Jackson's campaign against John Quincy Adams in 1828, when a alliance of "insiders" united around a couple great national issues was assailed through a coalition of outsiders decided on hardly any issues at all.
Jackson's campaign against John Quincy Adams in 1828 was a key factor which created the pathway to the "revolt of the outs". Ever since the election had sharpened not just the main policy issues, however personal and psychological ones as well, it changes into the ugliest and worst presidential contest in a time period of a whole generation. Yet, it separated, the outsiders all approved of the gentleman they wanted, which was Andrew Jackson, and they were untied by the confidence that they had been debarred from the citadels of the political and financial system, from the center of social rank and deference. Nonetheless, they were Southerners and Westerners irritated against the East; consumers and growers incensed by repulsive tariffs; small businessmen and mechanics indignant over "monopoly"; farmers aggressive to speculators and middlemen. .
The campaign of 1828 began just following the "corrupt bargain" became recognized, when Jackson, furious in excess of the Judas of the West, resigned his Senate seat and started home, which moreover, contributed to a great extent towards the revolt of the outs. Furthermore, neither time nor travel assuaged his approach. He was crying for his country's trial in liberty, he wrote a companion, when "the rights of the people" could be bartered for promises of office. Slander and mistreatment pressed away issues. Adams was called a "monarchist", Sabbath breaker, squanderer of the taxpayers" dollars on smooth fripperies , and pimp. Partisans of the President in turn taged Jackson as adulterer, butcher, bastard, and blasphemer.