| A | B |
|---|
| Adams, Clay, and Jackson | Presidential candidates for the 1824 election |
| John Quincy Adams | New Englander, Harvard graduate, Secretary of State under Monroe |
| Henry Clay | Kentuckian and Speaker of the House in Congress |
| Andrew Jackson | Hero of Battle of New Orleans, self-made man and rose from poverty to wealth |
| Election of 1824 | Jackson wins popular majority, no candidate won majority of electoral votes, but Adams wins with Clay's help in Congress |
| House of Representatives | According to the Constitution they had to vote to decide the Presidency of 1824 |
| Adam's plan as President | Provide federal help for roads, canals, national university, observatory for astronomers, and the arts |
| Adams and Jackson | Candidates for the election of 1828 |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Whigs | political party of John Adams,formerly called the National Republicans |
| Democrats | Jackson's political party which was the beginning of today's Democratic Party |
| caucus | private meeting of earlier political leaders to chose candidates for the Presidency |
| nominating convention | current means of nominating Presidential candidates by delegates from each state |
| Andrew Jackson | Winner of the Election of 1828 |
