<span>At the onset, the British imperial control focused primarily on bringing in goods from America to the motherland in Britain, however, as time progressed and economic opportunities manifested, the British began to levy severe taxes on colonials, which in turn was met with backlash.</span>
While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives