Vindicating Jackson -The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
The presidential election of 1828 witnessed Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans,bounce back from his controversial loss four years earlier to unseat John Quincy Adams.
The Jacksonian C.U.S.P (1828)
Conventions replace "King Caucus”
Universal male Suffrage
Popular elections
Age of the Common man