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Article: Corrupt Bargain
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CORRUPT BARGAIN
CORRUPT BARGAIN.
When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority in the electoral college, the House of Representatives awarded the election to John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson's outraged supporters claimed that a corrupt bargain had been struck whereby Henry Clay supported Adams in the House vote in ...
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