Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem explained what the "corrupt bargain" in 1824 was and how it impacted Andrew Jackson ...

Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States in 1829 after running as an anti-establishment candidate who would fight corruption and the entrenched aristocracy.

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...