Encore: Political Parties | Jacksonian Democracy | 2

American History Tellers

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Andrew Jackson lost the 1824 presidential election to John Quincy Adams through what some called a “corrupt bargain” in the House of Representatives. The maneuver was masterminded by hot-headed but politically savvy Henry Clay, who with Adams, announced their intent for far-reaching new federal programs. Fierce opposition to these policies united pro-Jackson supporters who formed a new party, the Democrats, to rally around their hero and elect him to president in 1828.

But while Adams was defeated, Henry Clay had no intention of leaving the fight. He helped lead a new party which gathered together anti-Jackson, fiscal conservatives, and pro-states rights factions. The rise of Clay’s new Whig party seemed unstoppable–they captured both houses of Congress and the presidency–until, on April 4, 1841, president William Henry Harrison died in office and gave John Tyler the power of the veto.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon music,
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0:08.0	This is a special encore presentation of our series on political parties in the United
0:12.4	States.
0:13.4	As we head into November and face a contentious and consequential election, it seems
0:17.3	a ripe time to revisit how we got here in the first place.
0:20.4	It wasn't always Democrats and Republicans.
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0:31.1	It chronicles every single presidential election from 1789 to 2020.
0:36.1	Both in this series and in that podcast, you'll find our current strife isn't so new,
0:40.7	and certainly not any worse than it has been.
0:42.9	Hopefully, that's a comfort.
0:46.9	Imagine this January, 1809.
0:58.3	You're on a narrow, spit of land alongside the Silver Creek and Southern Indiana.
1:02.9	It's the spot where it empties into the Ohio River.
1:06.6	You and your companions have just rode across the river from Louisville, Kentucky to this
1:10.6	desolate, windblown place.
1:12.5	It's a well-known dueling ground from Kentucky.
1:16.0	Dueling is illegal in the state, so men come here to the edge of the frontier to settle
1:21.0	their differences.
1:22.6	This wind won't help you with your aim today.
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