Editing Democratic-Republican Party (section)

=== Final years, 1825–1829 ===
{{Further|Presidency of John Quincy Adams}}
[[File:JQA Photo Crop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|[[John Quincy Adams]] won the 1824 presidential election as a Democratic-Republican after leaving the Federalist Party earlier in his career.]]
Adams shared Monroe's goal of ending partisan conflict, and his Cabinet included individuals of various ideological and regional backgrounds.<ref>{{harvp|Parsons|2009|pages=106–107}}.</ref> In his 1825 annual message to Congress, Adams presented a comprehensive and ambitious agenda, calling for major investments in internal improvements as well as the creation of a national university, a naval academy, and a national astronomical observatory.<ref>{{harvp|Kaplan|2014|pages=402–403}}.</ref> His requests to Congress galvanized the opposition, spurring the creation of an anti-Adams congressional coalition consisting of supporters of Jackson, Crawford, and Vice President Calhoun.<ref>{{harvp|Parsons|2009|pages=114–120}}.</ref> Following the 1826 elections, Calhoun and [[Martin Van Buren]] (who brought along many of Crawford's supporters) agreed to throw their support behind Jackson in the [[1828 United States presidential election|1828 election]].<ref>{{harvp|Parsons|2009|pages=127–128}}.</ref> In the press, the two major political factions were referred to as "Adams Men" and "Jackson Men".<ref name="Howe 2007 251">{{harvp|Howe|2007|p=251}}</ref>

The [[Jacksonian democracy|Jacksonians]] formed an effective party apparatus that adopted many modern campaign techniques and emphasized Jackson's popularity and the supposed corruption of Adams and the federal government.<ref>{{harvp|Howe|2007|pp=275–277}}</ref> Though Jackson did not articulate a detailed political platform in the same way that Adams did, his coalition was united in opposition to Adams's reliance on government planning and tended to favor the opening of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] lands to white settlement.<ref>{{harvp|Howe|2007|pp=279–280}}</ref> Ultimately, Jackson won 178 of the 261 electoral votes and just under 56 percent of the popular vote.<ref>{{harvp|Parsons|2009|pages=181–183}}.</ref> Jackson won 50.3 percent of the popular vote in the free states and 72.6 percent of the vote in the slave states.<ref>{{harvp|Howe|2007|pp=281–283}}</ref> The election marked the permanent end of the Era of Good Feelings and the start of the [[Second Party System]]. The dream of non-partisan politics, shared by Monroe, Adams, and many earlier leaders, was shattered, replaced with Van Buren's ideal of partisan battles between legitimated political parties.<ref name="auto">{{harvp|Parsons|2009|pages=185–187, 195}}.</ref>