The American History Podcast, Season 2, Episode 7, Andrew Jackson's first term.

Welcome to the American History Podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

Thank you. by Sean Worswick. Okay, so welcome back, friends, listeners, newcomers, and old-timers.

I'm happy to have you all here today, listening to what is the seventh episode of season

two and our 24th overall.

Today we're going to talk about Andrew Jackson's first term in office, and this is a long episode.

I'm not sure if it'll be our longest,

but it's going to clock in pretty close to it. So without further ado, let's get into it.

The year is 1828. For the past four years, Andrew Jackson has been waiting for this.

His chance to redeem himself and win what should in his mind and in the minds of his supporters have been his

in 1824, the presidency of the United States. Now, we mentioned this last time the fallout of the

election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency was that the one party system and the so-called

era of good feelings just completely falls apart. The Republican Party

splits into two factions, the National Republicans, supporters of Clay and Adams, and the Democrats,

the supporters of Andrew Jackson. The Adams presidency was not one that is considered successful,

as most of his agenda was blocked. One major item does get

through Congress, though, and that's the tariff of abominations, which wasn't exactly popular.

I mean, let's face it, when it's called the abominations, probably not a good thing. And so this

only helps to further what little popularity Adams had

with the people. So how nasty would this civil war within the party get? Well, the Tennessee legislature

nominates Jackson for president in October of 1825.

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