Use the following text from the twelfth amendment to answer the following question: the person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as president, the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. in what way was the twelfth amendment important in the election of 1824? no presidential candidate had received the majority of electoral college votes. some states had illegally appointed their electors to the electoral college. the house of representatives had not yet been elected for that year. the speaker of the house was also a presidential candidate at the time.

The 12th amendment established the electoral college and a system for electing the president and vice president in the United States. However, the system failed in the election of 1824 as none of the four candidates passed the requirements to becomr president. The votes was tied, and according to the 12th amendment, if the votes end up as tied, the House of Representatives must vote. Ultimately, John Quincy Adams wins the election.

from the religious point of view, the conflicts began because of the enmity between catholic and protestants. in 1649, at the insistence of baltimore, the colonial assembly approved the act of religious tolerance, the first law in the colonies granting freedom of worship, though only for christians. in 1654, however, with the protestants of maryland in the majority, the act was revoked. the almost civil war broke out and order was not restored until 1658, when lord baltimore was returned to power.

on the issue of class conflict, the chesapeake region offered few economic opportunities to contract employees who had served their term of obligation. even with the small amount of capital needed to grow tobacco, former hired servants at best became subsistence farmers, a mature class for those called to rebellion, such as those proposed by nathaniel bacon. as the number of new hired workers declined because of limited chances of progress and reports of severe treatment, they were replaced by african slaves.

from the racial point of view, after 1660, the chesapeake colonies imposed laws that defined slavery as a lifelong and hereditary condition based on race. this made slaves profitable because planters could rely not only on their work but also on their children. the slave population, which numbered four thousand in virginia and maryland in 1675, grew significantly by the end of the century.