Win the 1828 U.S. Presidential Election

You are John Quincy Adams and it's election day in 1828 If you type a state's name, you get its electoral votes. You need 131 votes to beat the villainous Andrew Jackson!

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First submitted	November 5, 2020
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#	State
5	Alabama
8	Connecticut
3	Delaware
9	Georgia
3	Illinois
5	Indiana
14	Kentucky
5	Louisiana
9	Maine
11	Maryland
15	Massachusetts
3	Mississippi

#	State
3	Missouri
8	New Hampshire
8	New Jersey
36	New York
15	North Carolina
16	Ohio
28	Pennsylvania
4	Rhode Island
11	South Carolina
11	Tennessee
7	Vermont
24	Virginia

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43 Comments

Level 54

Nov 5, 2020

I think JQA should be the “Villian” Great Job!

+22

Level 51

Nov 6, 2020

Nope. John Quincy rules!

+14

Level 33

Nov 16, 2020

JQA was so unpopular his own vice president became Jackson's running mate in the next election. Jackson was essentially cheated out of the presidency because he had tied Crawford in electoral votes and won the popular vote (Adams came in third in both), yet the Speaker of the House Henry Clay struck a deal with Adams to make him president instead. Adams is clearly the villain.

Level 21

May 21, 2024

Jackson didn't tie Crawford for electoral votes, he just didn't get a majority. Also, Adams was second in both the popular vote and the electoral vote. He was not behind Crawford in any sense. The contingent House election is right there in the Constitution and was inevitable in a four-way sectional race. Nothing illegal was ever found to be done in the "Corrupt Bargain". As the Speaker of the House, it was was well within Clay's rights and not unusual for him to influence his followers how to vote. This was no different than the sort of backdoor deals made in every nominating convention of the 19th century. Also, Jackson killed men in duels, ethnically cleansed the Cherokee by ignoring the Supreme Court, largely contributed to the Panic of 1837, and committed numerous war crimes throughout his life. Jackson is clearly the villain.

+36

Level 71

Nov 29, 2020

Yeah but then there's everything Andrew Jackson did AS President...

Level 34

Jun 9, 2024

Like?

Level 21

Oct 31, 2024

Indian removal act

Level 71

Dec 27, 2025

Also the Trail of Tears, Nullification Crisis, he destroyed the economy which led to the Panic of 1837, and MANY other things.

Level 66

Jun 7, 2021

My school is named after Adams

Level 79

May 5, 2023

And I suppose it has a tiger mascot?

+10

Level 37

Apr 27, 2021

Andrew Jackson killed a man. It even has it as an interesting fact. Plus, manifest destiny was a crime.

Level 61

Nov 6, 2020

Would love to see this as a series!

Level 67

Nov 6, 2020

Very interesting! 151 electoral votes.

Level 73

Nov 10, 2020

How did I get two Pennsylvainias???

Level 63

Nov 11, 2020

I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to go for Mississippi

Level 12

Nov 11, 2020

164 votes lets goooo

Level 54

Nov 14, 2020

Very Nice! I have never seen an SVG that had Missouri smaller than it is today.

Level 56

Jan 8, 2021

Why did so many people do Maine?

Level 71

Jan 13, 2021

I have a feeling that like me they start from the top on map quizzes. I did Maine too.

Level 63

Oct 30, 2021

It's also only 5 letters.

Level 71

Jan 13, 2021

Can you perhaps give 5 more seconds? Other than that good quiz.

Level 64

Mar 24, 2021

I think the reason why the rating is so low relates to its difficulty. From my experiences, people tend to give a lower rating to quizzes which they do poorly on, however if the quiz has a good concept/map (i.e. IAB's subdivision quizzes), they'll still give a high rating. But I'm not 100% sure if it applies to this quiz, given the fact that GeoPhilia's 'save humanity' quizzes have high ratings.

Level 77

Mar 24, 2021

Okay, thanks Pandora49

Level 54

Mar 25, 2021

Generally, people give quizzes low rating because a) they do poorly on it or b) it has something they don't like, for example, Cyprus is in europers might give the Which continent is Cyprus in lower ratings.

I don't think that there is really anything you can do about it.

Level 77

Mar 26, 2021

I think the quiz would be better if you would use the Lime Green Party and the Perriwinkle Party instead of making it a partisan quiz. Also, seeing that you might want it featured some day, I think that might be a bit of a problem, because the Quizmaster doesn't approve of partisan content.

Level 77

Mar 26, 2021

Missouri and Virginia are as they were at the time, and actually this map is an adaptation of the official U.S. map. I didn't think people would mind supporting politicians that were from so long ago, but I'll consider changing it to Lime Green and Periwinkle. Thanks for your answer.

Level 77

Mar 26, 2021

Oh no, I did not think that there was a mistake with your depiction of MO and VI, I meant, that if you were to use the jetpunk US map, you would have to change the states there, to represent the correct time, which on the current map, is displayed. My suggestions in the second comment were purely of aesthetic nature.

Level 77

Mar 26, 2021

I used the word "new", because QM only recently made it.

Level 77

Mar 26, 2021

Another thought. Maybe you could use the new US map, where many borders are vertical lines, and therein remove the new states and fix Missouri and Virginia.

Level 66

Jun 7, 2021

Just made the cut with 131. Guess Jackson is only average. (The average score is 130, so on average, we all did as good as Jackson

Level 77

Oct 21, 2021

I love the way this works out

Level 71

Nov 8, 2022

its, not its'

Level 77

Nov 8, 2022

Thanks