The major candidates in the election were unpopular incumbent President William Howard Taft (Republican Party), former President Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive "Bull Moose Party”) and New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Party).
I believe it’s jefferson because he had the highest impact
I had the same question on my test and I said false ♀️ sorry if it’s wrong
<span>In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.</span>
<span>To cut off the supply route connecting the west (England, Spain and France) to the east (India, China, etc)
it was also a short cut that the British wanted to control</span>
