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• Party Affiliation: Democratic Party
  
• Notable Positions: President of the United States, Military Governor of Florida, United States Senator from Tennessee, United States Representative from Tennessee, General in the American Army
  
• Biography: Andrew Jackson is the first “self-made man” of the United States and the first Westerner with a real chance of winning the White House. Born in Waxhaw, South Carolina to Scotch-Irish immigrants, Jackson spent his early life fighting in the Revolutionary War and studying law. In 1788, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he fell in love with Rachel Donelson Robards, who had been abandoned by her husband. A prosecutor, judge, congressman, and senator, Jackson distinguished himself within Tennessee as an advocate of the people. It was only in the Battle for New Orleans in 1814, however, that he became known nationally. Hoping to use the victory to support themselves, Madison and Monroe elevated the battle in almost mythic proportions. Consequently, Jackson has become a type of modern George Washington. In 1824, Jackson lost the Presidential Election despite winning the popular vote. This injustice has further increased his fame.
  
• Platform: After the so-called “corrupt bargain” of 1824, Andrew Jackson finds himself at the head of a political revolution against entrenched elites. Having witnessed first-hand the willingness of party leaders to fulfill their interests above the interests of the nation at large, Jackson promises to abolish every political unjust restriction. He advocates universal suffrage for all white males and the removal of all tax or property requirements. He promises an end to the corrupt patronage system and promises to personally oversee reform efforts. He promises an end to the corrupt Bank of the United States, which enriches the wealthiest citizens at the expense of the most poor. He even promises to expand the country’s borders, which have been unjustly constrained by wealthy aristocrats who are afraid of free men. Jackson promises a return to constitutional law and will work tirelessly to ensure that government serves the common man. Jackson tepidly supports Clay’s proposed American System, which seeks to build a self-sufficient national economy, and is especially interested in using it to improve national transportation. He worries, however, about the program’s potential to be tyrannous and to disproportionately benefit the North. He supports mild tariffs as a way of supporting this system, despite its unpopularity in the South. Jackson is an avid proponent of slavery and national expansion. He views the native tribes as an active threat to American civilization that must be crushed.

• Party Affiliation: Democratic-Republican Party
  
• Notable Positions: Vice President of the United States, United States Secretary of War, United States Representative from South Carolina
  
• Biography: John Caldwell Calhoun is one of the country’s leading politicians, theorists, and nationalists. Born in 1782 to a Scotch-Irish immigrant, Calhoun spent much of his early life working on his family’s farm in South Carolina and only managed to attend Yale College with his brothers’ financial support. Using the connections he made in Yale, Calhoun was able to achieve a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he distinguished himself as a “war hawk” in favor of the War of 1812 and an aggressive proponent of Madison’s policies. For his passionate support, Calhoun was made Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where he struggled to overcome opposition from Webster, Macon, and Randolph to raise taxes or institute a draft. Under Monroe, Calhoun served as the Secretary of War where he sought to establish an effective navy.
  
• Platform: Calhoun is an avid proponent of nationalism and modernization and is a leading backer of Clay's proposed American System. Hoping to transform the United States from an economic backwater into a self-sufficient hegemon, Calhoun has embraced the ideas of Alexander Hamilton. His ideas rest on three mutually reinforcing parts: a strong national bank to foster commerce, federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other internal improvements, and the institution of protective tariffs to protect and promote American industry. Though he recognizes the evils of slavery, Calhoun is the first man of any authority to argue that slavery is a net good, for its economic benefits, and has opposed any attempts to limit its expansion. He opposes a strong military, as he fears it will be used to entangle the United States abroad. Calhoun is also noted for advocating against the use of force on Native Americans. He hopes to set up a system of voluntary land exchange to ensure American expansion without violence. Calhoun loathes John Quincy Adams and supports Nullification to stop his agenda.

• Party Affiliation: National Republican Party
  
• Notable Positions: United States Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Ambassador to Russia, United States Ambassador to Prussia, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, United States Senator from Massachusetts, United States Representative from Massachusetts
  
• Biography: John Quincy Adams is the son of former President John Adams, who trained his son to excel in the foreign service. At the age of ten, he accompanied his father to Paris, where he became fluent in French. Over the next seven years, John Quincy lived in Paris, Amsterdam, and St. Petersburg, and eventually attended the prestigious University of Leiden. After returning to the United States, he served as his father’s secretary, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, and graduated from Harvard. John Quincy has served every President since George Washington and most recently served James Monroe’s Secretary of State. He played a major role in articulating the Monroe Doctrine and negotiating the Adams-Onis Treaty.
  
• Platform: While Jackson stands as a figure of revolutionary change, Adams has emerged as a defender of the old order and a symbol of continuity. For Adams, national government must never be swayed by the urgings of local interests or the “momentary majority. Instead, it must “refine and enlarge the public views,” no matter how unpopular with the unwashed masses. As such, Adams opposes almost all of what Jackson stands for. He opposes a government of the “common man,” because the common man is too uneducated and short-sighted to understand long-term national survival. He does not believe in a need to end patronage and sees informal forms of influence as a political necessity. Adams also fundamentally opposes strict constitutionalism as it prevents the President from enacting necessary internal improvements. Adams believes that every effort must be made to support the American System, which hopes to achieve a self-sufficient but regionally specialized economy. He is willing to support high tariffs, such as the Tariff of Abominations, to achieve this vision. He is aligned with Clay on economics. In other affairs, Adams supports opening up trade with markets in Europe and South America and rapprochement with the British. He hopes to resolve ongoing trade disputes with the British West Indies and Canada. He adamantly opposes slavery. Though he wishes to remove the Native Americans from the South, Adams believes that he has a duty to treaty the Indians as equals and to abide by existing treaties with them. He supports purchasing land from the tribes, not merely annexing them.

• Party Affiliation: National Republican Party
  
• Notable Positions: United States Secretary of the Treasury, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Acting United states Secretary of State, United States Attorney General, Comptroller of the United States Treasury
  
• Biography: Richard Rush first gained prominence as a War Hawk and supporter of Madison within the largely “Dove” Treasury. Rush quickly gained Madison’s friendship and a position as the youngest Attorney General in American history. His ties would also help him befriend John Quincy Adams, whose position he temporarily took in 1817. As Acting Secretary of State, Richard Rush negotiated a demilitarization of the Great Lakes and the joint administration of Oregon. Though he is well-respected in Europe, Rush failed to get British recognition of the new South American republics. This failure led directly to the Monroe Doctrine. He has also, notably, only missed one week of work since the start of his career.
  
• Platform: Richard Rush is a moderate nationalist and, unsurprisingly, a former Federalist who defected to the Democratic-Republicans over his dislike of the British. Rush believes in the necessity of the American System over all other programs. He is suspicious of Western expansion and believes that the West needs to engage in self-sacrifice to ensure the solvency of the Union. Rush believes that the United States should build a strong navy to supplement the natural defense that is the Atlantic, and sought a position as Secretary of the Navy before receiving the Treasury. He is a trade protectionist and while he did not design the Tariff of Abominations, he does not oppose it. He considers abolitionism to be a Northern extravagance and a threat to national unity.

QuoProQuid has issued a correction as of 02:32 on Jan 31, 2016