THE 1828 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The 1828 presidential campaign was the model for many political campaigns of the future. Campaign rallies were held by supporters of both Quincy Adams and Jackson, Mudslinging was a daily occurrence during the campaign. Jackson’s supporters claimed that Adams stole the 1824 election and gave too many fancy dinners; they also claimed that when he had been envoy to Russia, Adams had helped procure American prostitutes for the Russia tsar. Supporters of Adams said that Jackson was a murderer and an adulterer (the charge was made that his wife was an adulterer as well). Jackson won the election handily; under him the Democratic party became the first real political party of the United States.