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What happened during the election of 1824?

O Many more Americans were eligible to vote than in previous elections.
Henry Clay won the majority of votes by the people, but John Quincy Adams won with the majority of the
electoral votes
.
John Quincy Adams made a corrupt bargain to help Andrew Jackson win the presidency
John Quincy Adams ran unopposed because there was only one political party,

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Answer:

The Adams administration suffered from accusations that he made a corrupt bargain with Clay to win the election.

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Even though Andrew Jackson won the most electoral and popular votes, he didn't win by enough to beat any of the other three candidates. This meant that the final vote was up to the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, with the least amount of votes, knew that neither himself or Crawford would win and he hated Andrew Jackson, so he turned his votes over to John Adams which gave Adams the most votes and made Adams win.

In 1828, Jackson beat his other candidates and won the presidency.

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