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John Quincy Adams, John Adams’s son who was elected to the presidency in 1825, was the first U.S. president to not have been a part of the American Revolution. Many felt that Adams’s election, in which he won the electoral college but not the popular vote, was a “Corrupt Bargain.”
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John Quincy Adams Character Timeline in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The timeline below shows where the character John Quincy Adams appears in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...Andrew Jackson had just won the popular vote, but the electoral college had instead selected John Quincy Adams as president, prompting popular outrage. Plus, more and more members of the Revolutionary generation were...
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...ever coming to violence. Just as Andrew Jackson made a show of peacefully congratulating rival John Quincy Adams on the presidency, anti-Adams Americans were able to turn to the press (and not the...
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