1824 in the United States
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This page contains events in the United States other than the ones already listed in the article on 1824.
Events
- November 5- Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which is today known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
- November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. presidential election.
- December 1 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
