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1 No one received a _ of electoral votes so the HofReps had to choose the winner.
2 Andrew Jackson received ninety-nine electoral _ in the 1824 election--not a majority.
3 The candidate who was the son of our 2nd president was John Quincy _.
4 After losing to AJ in 1828, JQA was elected to the House of Representatives where he served until his _ in 1848.
5 Crawford was _ by Republicans in Congress as the official candidate.
6 Adams made Clay his secretary of _, which was then the stepping-stone to the presidency.
7 Jacksonians saw the Adams-Clay alliance as a symbol of a corrupt system where elite insiders acted without heeding the will of the _.
8 From 1816 to 1824, the US had only _ political party.
9 JQA supported the _ System, but AJ's supporters stopped it because it was associated with Henry Clay.
10 The arrangement between JQA and Clay was denounced as a "_ Bargain" by supporters of Jackson.
11 In 1824, AJ led in the _ vote, but we know this means almost nothing in Presidential Elections..
12 The nasty presidential race of 1828 _ before Adams even took office in 1824.
13 Because of the "CB," Congress approved little of what Adams wanted. His _ was a failure.
14 Henry _, the speaker of the House of Representatives, convinced the House to elect JQA in 1824.
15 After the 1828 election, AJ’s supporters formed the Democratic _.
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