Expansion and Conflict

“Let the people rule,” Andrew Jackson answered after John Quincy Adams won the presidency—with help from Henry Clay. The cry turned a political defeat into a battle over who had the right to govern.

In William Edward Dodd’s account of the United States in the 1820s, an old political order faces a rising West, while the nation’s regions pull in different directions. Jackson, frontier lawyer, general, and hero of New Orleans, becomes the standard-bearer for voters who believe government has fallen into the hands of gentlemen and professional politicians. But the fight over power runs deeper than one election: a punishing tariff stirs revolt in the South, and even Jackson’s allies have opposing interests. As the campaign gathers force, can a movement claiming to speak for the people hold together a country already divided?

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