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Twelfth Amendment

Amendment to the Constitution; Election of 1824, 1825; allowed the House of Representatives to elect John Q. Adams as President because Andrew Jackson received the most votes but did not get a majority of the votes; angered Jackson and his followers. p.235

Subject: 
US History [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 13 - The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy [2]

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