Answer:
Andrew Jackson described the election of 1824 as a "corrupt bargain" because he thought that South Carolina voted for John Quincy Adams in order to make it easier to secede.
Jackson laid the blame on Clay, telling anyone who would listen that the Speaker had approached him with the offer of a deal: Clay would support Jackson in return for Jackson's appointment of Clay as secretary of state. When Jackson refused, Clay purportedly made the deal with Adams instead.
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