Win the 1828 U.S. Presidential Election

You are John Quincy Adams and it's election day in 1828 If you type a state's name, you get its electoral votes. You need 131 votes to beat the villainous Andrew Jackson!

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Last updated: November 8, 2022

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First submitted	November 5, 2020
Times taken	18,041
Average score	47.5%
Rating	4.38
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#	State
5	Alabama
8	Connecticut
3	Delaware
9	Georgia
3	Illinois
5	Indiana
14	Kentucky
5	Louisiana
9	Maine
11	Maryland
15	Massachusetts
3	Mississippi

#	State
3	Missouri
8	New Hampshire
8	New Jersey
36	New York
15	North Carolina
16	Ohio
28	Pennsylvania
4	Rhode Island
11	South Carolina
11	Tennessee
7	Vermont
24	Virginia

Level 55

Nov 5, 2020

I think JQA should be the “Villian” Great Job!

+16

Level 52

Nov 6, 2020

Nope. John Quincy rules!

Level 33

Nov 16, 2020

JQA was so unpopular his own vice president became Jackson's running mate in the next election. Jackson was essentially cheated out of the presidency because he had tied Crawford in electoral votes and won the popular vote (Adams came in third in both), yet the Speaker of the House Henry Clay struck a deal with Adams to make him president instead. Adams is clearly the villain.

+30

Level 71

Nov 29, 2020

Yeah but then there's everything Andrew Jackson did AS President...

Level 60

Jun 7, 2021

My school is named after Adams

Level 66

May 5, 2023

And I suppose it has a tiger mascot?

Level 37

Apr 27, 2021

Andrew Jackson killed a man. It even has it as an interesting fact. Plus, manifest destiny was a crime.

Level 62

Nov 6, 2020

Would love to see this as a series!

Level 68

Nov 6, 2020

Very interesting! 151 electoral votes.

Level 65

Nov 10, 2020

How did I get two Pennsylvainias???

Level 60

Nov 11, 2020

I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to go for Mississippi

Level 12

Nov 11, 2020

164 votes lets goooo

Level 55

Nov 14, 2020

Very Nice! I have never seen an SVG that had Missouri smaller than it is today.

Level 57

Jan 8, 2021

Why did so many people do Maine?

Level 65

Jan 13, 2021

I have a feeling that like me they start from the top on map quizzes. I did Maine too.

Level 60

Oct 30, 2021

It's also only 5 letters.

Level 65

Jan 13, 2021

Can you perhaps give 5 more seconds? Other than that good quiz.

Level 51

Feb 9, 2021

185 electoral votes!

Level 51

Feb 9, 2021

194!

Level 51

Feb 9, 2021

202!

Level 51

Feb 9, 2021

212! Beats 100% of test takers

Level 51

Feb 10, 2021

217!!!!

Level 75

Feb 10, 2021

Impressive! Our best is 203

Level 51

Feb 11, 2021

Haha, I would've stopped at 202, but I saw that you once got 203 (by friend stats), so I continued so that I could get chorus: Beats 100% of the quiz takers!

Level 51

Feb 11, 2021

224!

Level 51

Mar 24, 2021

240!

Level 55

Mar 24, 2021

Forgot the exclamation

Level 51

Mar 24, 2021

Added!

Level 56

Mar 24, 2021

I think the reason why the rating is so low relates to its difficulty. From my experiences, people tend to give a lower rating to quizzes which they do poorly on, however if the quiz has a good concept/map (i.e. IAB's subdivision quizzes), they'll still give a high rating. But I'm not 100% sure if it applies to this quiz, given the fact that GeoPhilia's 'save humanity' quizzes have high ratings.

Level 75

Mar 24, 2021

Okay, thanks Pandora49

Level 55

Mar 25, 2021

Generally, people give quizzes low rating because a) they do poorly on it or b) it has something they don't like, for example, Cyprus is in europers might give the Which continent is Cyprus in lower ratings.

I don't think that there is really anything you can do about it.

Level 74

Mar 26, 2021

I think the quiz would be better if you would use the Lime Green Party and the Perriwinkle Party instead of making it a partisan quiz. Also, seeing that you might want it featured some day, I think that might be a bit of a problem, because the Quizmaster doesn't approve of partisan content.

Level 75

Mar 26, 2021

Missouri and Virginia are as they were at the time, and actually this map is an adaptation of the official U.S. map. I didn't think people would mind supporting politicians that were from so long ago, but I'll consider changing it to Lime Green and Periwinkle. Thanks for your answer.

Level 74

Mar 26, 2021

Oh no, I did not think that there was a mistake with your depiction of MO and VI, I meant, that if you were to use the jetpunk US map, you would have to change the states there, to represent the correct time, which on the current map, is displayed. My suggestions in the second comment were purely of aesthetic nature.

Level 74

Mar 26, 2021

I used the word "new", because QM only recently made it.

Level 74

Mar 26, 2021

Another thought. Maybe you could use the new US map, where many borders are vertical lines, and therein remove the new states and fix Missouri and Virginia.

Level 51

May 16, 2021

Only missed Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina.

Level 60

Jun 7, 2021

Just made the cut with 131. Guess Jackson is only average. (The average score is 130, so on average, we all did as good as Jackson

Level 51

Oct 15, 2021

Only missed Mississippi

Level 75

Oct 21, 2021

I love the way this works out