Describe the outcome of the “special election” and why Jackson and his supporters called it a “subversion of democracy.” ...

Before the election of 1824, the United States was at the tail end of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time when political partisanship was low and one party, the Democratic-Republicans ...

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