USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. A smear campaign is an intentional, premeditated effort to undermine an individual’s or group’s reputation, credibility, and character. Like negative campaigning, most often smear campaigns target government officials, politicians, political candidates, and other public figures.

Detailed explanation-2: -Character assassination (CA) is a deliberate and sustained effort to damage the reputation or credibility of an individual.

Detailed explanation-3: -President Van Buren created the Independent Treasury System which was later attacked by the Whigs who desired the return of a national bank. By 1841, they had amassed enough of a following that they were able to begin the first step to destroying the Independent Treasury System.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Electoral College met on December 3. Adams won the same states that his father had won in the election of 1800 (the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware) and Maryland, but Jackson won all other states and won the election in a landslide.