No one received the majority of electoral votes in 1824--due to this the top 3 candidates moved on to the House of Representatives for a vote.
In 1824, no clear majority winner came out of the electoral votes. Andrew Jackson, John Q. Adams, and William Crawford were the top three vote winners so they went onto the House vote. In the House, each state gets one vote--John Q. Adams ended up winning the election.
Pros were that they were able to work in the military and serve their country cons were that they were still segregated and after the war their treatment did not differ much from before
I believe the answer is C. They were a distraction from a large budget deficit that the leaders of Salem had recently incurred.
