Before the election of 1824, the United States was at the tail end of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time when political partisanship was low and one party, the Democratic-Republicans ...
1828 — The first truly “democratic” election. After a deal between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay counted Andrew Jackson ...
In 1824, Andrew Jackson won both the popular and the electoral vote but didn’t win the latter with a majority of Electoral Votes. Under the provisions of the 12th Amendment, the election was ...
A contingent election determined the winner of the presidential election on two occasions in U.S. history - 1800 and 1824. In ...