Question

Andrew Jackson first became a serious contender for the presidency because​

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Andrew Jackson was an experienced military man and a representative of the views of border people. He therefore called for a rapid enlargement of the United States and brutally treated the Native American tribe, especially in the state of Florida. His style of governance was extremely authoritarian, yet his changes ultimately strengthened both the democratic order and the nationhood of the United States.

In the 1824 presidential election, in which he faced John Quincy Adams and two other Democratic-Republican candidates, Jackson won a majority of 151,271 votes in the referendum and 99 in the electorate. However, as at least 131 of the 261 votes in the electoral body were needed to win the election and no one won the majority, the election passed to the House of Representatives, which elected Adams 13 votes against Jackson 7.