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 ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of ...

Describe the outcome of the “special election” and why Jackson and his supporters called it a “subversion of democracy.” ...

The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...