The Constitution pt 4

Slavery was another area that the delegates argued about.

• True

• False

Why did Southern states fight to keep slavery?

• they depended on the unpaid labor on farms

• they had invested a lot of time in training them

• the had grown so found of them and looked at them like family

• they had already built additional housing for them

Slaves were considered (a)   , not citizens of America.

Slaves did have the right to vote.

• True

• False

Northern delegates did not feel slaves should count in Southern state's population.

• True

• False

What two framers hoped slavery would end?

(a)  

Slavery went against the (a)   .

The word slaves appears several times in the Constitution.

• True

• False

Delegates decided that slaves would count as only three-fifths of a person.

• True

• False

Congress passes the (a)   which said that all land north of the Ohio River would not allow slavery.