John bell's constitutional union party served what purpose in the election of 1860?
-in attempting to appease both sides of the slavery issue, it gained no votes.
-in attempting to appease both sides of the slavery issue, it split votes that could have gone to a decisive candidate.
-it caused no candidate to clearly win a majority.
-by being non-committal on slavery, bell almost won the election.

In attempting to appease both sides of the slavery issue, it split votes that could have gone to a decisive candidate.

The Constitutional Union Party was a political party created in 1860. It was made up of conservative Whigs who wanted to avoid the secession of the South over the issue of slavery. The party hoped to push aside the issue by not taking a firm stand either for or against it.

The party won the electoral votes of three states (Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee) due to the split in Democratic votes. However, the party did not get 50% of the popular vote in any state.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the first action that caused many creek indians to turn against william mcintosh was when mcintosh a) supported the united states during the creek war of 1813–1814. b) attempted to stop the sale of creek land to the u.s. government. c) seized control of over 1,000 acres of land belonging to the creeks.