The main issue that led to the Missouri Compromise was
A) maintaining the balance between slave states and free states.
B) how to quietly end the embargo that was destroying the New England economy.
C) the need to maintain a balance between agricultural states and industrial states.
D) the lack of a provision in the Constitution for admission of new states into the Union.
E) federal aid to Mississippi River steamboats.
Question 2
What did the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution require?
A) There could be no more than two candidates for president and vice president.
B) The vice president and president had to belong to the same political party.
C) A tie in the vote for the presidency had to be settled in a second election.
D) There had to be separate ballots in the electoral college for the presidency and vice presidency.
E) Presidents were to be limited to two consecutive terms in office.
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