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December 1,
1824
Presidential election goes to the House
As
no presidential candidate had received a majority of the total
electoral votes in the election of 1824, Congress decides to turn over
the presidential election to the House of Representatives, as dictated
by the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In the November
1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total,
were necessary to elect a candidate president. Although it had no
bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for
the first time in this election. On December 1, 1824, the results were
announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544
popular votes; John Quincy Adams--the son of John Adams, the second
president of the United States--received 84 electoral and 108,740
popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered
a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and
Representative Henry Clay of Virginia won 37 electoral votes.
Representative Henry Clay, who was disqualified from the House vote
as a fourth-place candidate, agreed to use his influence to have John
Quincy Adams elected. Clay and Adams were both members of a loose
coalition in Congress that by 1828 became known as the National
Republicans, while Jackson's supporters were later organized into the
Democratic Party.
Thanks to Clay's backing, on February 9, 1825,
the House elected Adams as president of the United States. When Adams
then appointed Clay to the top cabinet post of secretary of state,
Jackson and his supporters derided the appointment as the fulfillment
of a corrupt agreement.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5564
December 1, 1913
Ford debuts assembly line
The
Ford Motor Company introduced the continuous moving assembly line on
this day. Ford's new assembly line could produce a complete car every
two-and-a-half minutes. The efficiency and speed of Ford's production
lines allowed the company to sell cars for less than any competitor.
December 1,
1955
Rosa Parks ignites bus boycot
In
Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her
seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial
segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a
young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's
historic act of civil disobedience.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=7098