If you thought today’s politics of attack ads, mud-slinging and character assassination are dreadful, you should’ve witnessed the election of 1828, the ugliest in America’s history.

The bitter election of 1828 that propelled Andrew Jackson into the presidency is a moment that marked the beginning of mass parties, liberal capitalism, and the rise of the “forgotten man,” a ...

The 1824 election would thus be a strange hybrid: ... Jackson gets 7, and Crawford takes 4. Jackson vows to unseat Adams in 1828, beginning an era of political rancor. The candidates.

The election of Donald Trump was a surprise and ... despair of well-bred and well-educated Americans ever since he defeated the supremely gifted John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election.

This practice became formalized with the victory of Andrew Jackson over incumbent President John Quincy Adams in the election ...

The election is likely to create a new governing majority coalition that could dominate American politics for a generation or more. But this realignment is unlike any of the ... In 1828, the ...

In the wake of former President Andrew Jackson's 1828 election victory over then sitting President John Quincy Adams, Rachel Jackson \-- his wife -- died of a heart attack.

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the ...

Description. Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem discussed the results of the 1828 presidential election, which saw Andrew Jackson elected to his first term.

Things would get even more heated in 1828, and once again an Adams ... The election of 1884 provided another example of delightful mudslinging, this time in the form of short rhymes.

How could the return of Trump-era “Schedule F” job appointments reshape the federal workforce? Schedule F would expand the role of political appointees in the government.

Around the time the 14th Amendment was written, Webster's 1828 dictionary defined "insurrection" broadly. Use that to determine if Trump qualifies for the ballot.