John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, took office in 1825 under disputed circumstances. Andrew Jackson had received more popular and electoral votes than any other candidate, but no a majority, and according to the Twelfth Amendment, the House of Representatives was required to choose among the three candidates with the largest numbers of electoral votes, and because Crawford was sick, the decision was between Jackson and Adams. Adams promised Clay the Secretary of State, which was considered the stepping-stone of the presidency, and with Clay’s support, Adams won in the House, becoming President, and being accused by Jackson as a "Corrupt Bargain". Throughout his presidency, the political bitterness form the “corrupt bargain” frustrated his policies, for the Jacksonian Congress blocked most of his ambitiously nationalist program similar to Clay’s American System, and many other of his political goals. The final damage to the administration was the "Tariff of Abomination" as called by people in the South, who cursed the bill as unfair and harmful. Jackson greatly defeated Adams in his reelection, in a battle where issues seemed to count for little, and a campaign of war of personal invective. With his loss to Jackson, John Q. Adams only served one term in the Presidency.