Form 8: The Three-Fifths Compromise & Slavery Debates Exercise

Form 8: The Three-Fifths Compromise & Slavery Debates

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Form 8: The Three-Fifths Compromise & Slavery Debates

Explore the intense debates over slavery at the Constitutional Convention and the resulting Three-Fifths Compromise.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    What was the main agreement of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

  2. MultiChoice

    Which region wanted enslaved people counted fully for congressional representation?

  3. MultiChoice

    Which region argued that enslaved persons should NOT count for representation unless granted rights?

  4. MultiChoice

    Under the Slave Trade Compromise, Congress was forbidden from banning the transatlantic slave trade for how long?

  5. MultiChoice

    Which constitutional clause required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners?

  6. MultiChoice

    Why did Northern delegates compromise on slavery issues despite objections?

  7. MultiChoice

    To protect Southern agricultural exports, what was Congress forbidden to do under Commerce compromises?

  8. MultiChoice

    Which delegates originally proposed the 3/5 ratio during Confederation tax debates in 1783?

  9. MultiChoice

    What was a major political result of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

  10. MultiChoice

    In what year did Congress finally pass a law banning the foreign slave trade?

  11. MultiChoice

    Which delegate strongly condemned slavery as a nefarious institution during debates?

  12. MultiChoice

    How did the original 1787 Constitution handle the word 'slavery'?