No Corrupt Bargain: Course of JQA Presidency?

Lets assume that John Quincy Adams wins the Election of 1824 outright. Maybe Jackson stays a supporter or even runs as his running mate. Maybe Clay bows out and throws his weight behind Adams in the election.

Regardless, JQA is elected President without any stains of corruption behind his campaign. How does his administration do? He had a lot of ambitious plans, but they largely failed to come to fruition.
 
The reason Adams' agenda was blocked by Congress was that a) he was seen as a minority President with no mandate and b) Jackson's men used backroom trickery to obstruct the President to help their man redeem his 1824 loss in 1828. Had he won outright, Adams would have a majority mandate to govern and Jackson's men would accept the results of the election and probably cooperate with the President. Jackson and Van Buren were originally pro-tariff and voted for internal improvements under Monroe's Presidency; they turned against these policies in order to destroy Adams. (Of course, once elected in 1828 they did nothing about tariffs which angered Calhoun and helped to cause the Secession Crisis.)

So with the backing of the people and a united Republican Party behind him, I expect Adams to implement at least a few major elements of his domestic agenda. He could be popular enough to win in 1828, especially if Jackson declines to seek a rematch.
 
Andrew Jackson as John Quincy Adams VP is intriguing but would Jackson agree to it? Is his ego too big or more importantly is he too old and two terms of Adams would make him too old and ill to successfully make a run of his own.

As to JQA's policies would they plant the seeds to a more socialistic America down the line with a more hands on government earlier in the nation's history?

Is the Trail of Tears prevented or only delayed?

Does the Civil War happen earlier without Andrew Jackson as a threat to those who would dare leave his country?
 
Does the Civil War happen earlier without Andrew Jackson as a threat to those who would dare leave his country?

The nullification crisis actually might not end up happening in this TL. The source of that conflict was the Tariff of 1828, which Calhoun and Van Buren created in order to sink Adams before the election. The law was never supposed to pass, the idea was to create a tariff so high that not even New England would vote for it. The endgame was to embarrass Adams and Clay by showing that even in the President's own regional base his support for high tariffs was unpopular. However, this backfired as the new tariff helped New England's burgeoning industries. They voted for it, the bill passed, and Adams reluctantly signed it. This horrified Calhoun, who was further angered when Jackson's 1832 tariff was still considered too high. If Adams gets an outright majority and he has a unified Republican party behind him, Van Buren's trickery wouldn't have happened. No tariff, no crisis.
 
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