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American History Tellers

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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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0:09.0	Imagine this January, 1809.
0:20.6	You're on a narrow, spit of land alongside the Silver Creek in southern Indiana.
0:25.2	It's the spot where it empties into the Ohio River.
0:28.8	You and your companions have just rode across the river from Louisville, Kentucky to this
0:33.0	desolate, windblown place.
0:35.0	It's a well-known dueling ground for the Kentucky Islands, dueling is illegal in the state,
0:40.0	so men come here to the edge of the frontier to settle their differences.
0:44.6	This wind won't help you with your aim today.
0:47.0	I won't need any help to put this scoundrel in his place.
0:50.6	God willing will bury him on this hillside.
0:53.4	Your companion is a young, headstrong politician named Henry Clay.
0:57.8	Despite being only 31, he's the speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
1:03.1	He's come here today to duel with another lawmaker named Humphrey Marshall.
1:07.9	The two nearly came to blows two weeks ago after an argument over legislation Clay proposed.
1:13.7	You're here to serve as Clay's second, ensuring that the rules are followed.
1:18.6	You and Clay, together with the physician he's brought along, make your way up the shore
1:22.8	to where Marshall and his own companions are waiting.
1:26.2	Glad to see you were a man enough to show your face here today, Clay.
1:29.7	And you're even wearing home spun clothes too, how nice.
1:33.4	Clay glares at his enemy for a moment, but doesn't respond.
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