Constitutional compromises: The 3/5 Compromise and Slave Trade and Commerce Compromise

After the Revolution many ______ states began to outlaw or phase out slavery.

• Northern

• Western

• Eastern

• Southern

The first compromise made at the Convention regarding slavery was that the international slave trade would not be prohibited by Congress another _____ years.

• 20

• 10

• 100

Up until the 1850, one of the largest slave markets in the country was located in

• Washington, DC

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Boston, Massachutts

Who would have been strongly in favor of including slaves in the population count for determining representation in the House of Representatives?

• delegates from slave-holding states

• delegates from non-slave-holding states

• all white people from any state

• all enslaved people

What one word were the framers of the Constitution ashamed to include anywhere in the original document.

Why would the non slaveholding states have agreed to the 3/5 Compromise when it gave the slaveholding states such a huge advantage in the House of Representatives?

• They could never have ratified the new Constitution without the cooperation of the Southern states.

• They thought that being agreeable at the convention would convince the Southern states to someday abolish slavery in the future.