Historians consider the 1828 presidential election to be one of the nastiest in US history, according to CNN.
The reasons for this date back to the previous election, in 1824, which was also between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
Adams won, and many felt that Jackson had been robbed of victory because of a deal that Adams cut with another contender, Henry Clay, whom he later made his secretary of state.
Adams and Jackson were also extremely different men.
Adams was the son of the nation's second president, came from a prominent New England family, was Harvard educated, and had spent a good portion of his life abroad.
Jackson, meanwhile, had a tough upbringing, during which he was kidnapped and beaten by British soldiers, orphaned, and largely had to fend for himself in South Carolina.
During the 1828 election, Adams was called a pimp, while Jackson's wife was labeled a slut.
According to The Atlantic, when Jackson eventually won, his supporters stormed the White House and Adams had to secretively escape.