The 1828 presidential election, which saw the revival of the two party system, was the most hotly contested and nasty one since 1800. Andrew Jackson ran for president a second time on charges that he'd been robbed of a legitimate victory four years earlier and denouncing the "Tariff of Abominations" against unpopular incumbent John Quincy Adams. Although Adams himself was too highbrow to engage in personal attacks, his supporters had no qualms about charging Jackson with being a bloodstained barbarian who hanged prisoners-of-war without trial during campaigns in the War of 1812 and in Florida. Jackson supporters accused Adams of being an aristocratic elitist--("a man who fights versus a man who writes") and of several corrupt activities including charges that he acted as a pimp while serving as US ambassador to Russia and had procured prostitutes for the tsar. Adams had also purchased a billiard table and a chess set for the White House, paid for out of his own pocket, which Jackson supporters magnified into an entire gambling parlor.Worse than that were charges that Jackson had engaged in a bigamous marriage to his wife Rachel, as she had left her first husband and married him before the divorce was finalized. Rachel had not wanted to go to Washington D.C. or serve as First Lady, but she was spared from this when she passed away at the end of the year from a stroke. Jackson was heartbroken at her death and blamed his political enemies for it.When the electoral votes were counted in December, Jackson buried Adams in a huge landslide with 178 electoral votes to 83 and 55% of the popular vote to 44%. Adams only carried the traditional Federalist strongholds in the Northeast.
>>18330323Jackson was a psychopath, genocider and deporter of natives, and ruiner of the US economy with his war on the BOTUS.
>>18330364>a psychopathA politician?>genocider and deporter of nativesYou mean Indians, only founding stock Americans are natives. And we are grateful for the Indian Removal Act to this day.>ruiner of the US economy with his war on the BOTUSYou simp for the old banks just to counter-signal against Jackson. I bet you think banks give blacks unfairly bad credit rather than correctly assessing risk.
>>18330323>("a man who fights versus a man who writes")Reminds me very much of that line from the Simpsons movie, "I was elected to lead, not to read!"
>>18330793>Reminds me very much of that line from the SimpsonsYes that says a lot about you>muh philosopher kings
