History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1367 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1828
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The idea
Jackson took fifty-six percent of the popular vote and sixty-eight percent of the electoral vote in November eighteen twenty-eight.
In practice
A decisive answer to the House decision of four years earlier.
Where people slip
The margin matters because it let Jackson claim a popular mandate the previous election had denied him.
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