In Which of the Following Ways Did the Constitution Help

question 73

Multiple Choice

In which of the following ways did the Constitution help enable future anti-slavery efforts?

• A) The Constitution made it impossible for the condition of bondage to remain attached to a person after escaping to a state where slavery had been abolished.
• B) The Constitution included a slave trade clause that officially ended the importation of slaves immediately upon the signing of the Constitution.
• C) By treating slavery as solely an economic issue, the Constitution provided the federal government the right to regulate it as "interstate commerce."
• D) By allowing slavery to remain a state-based institution, the Constitution permitted the national government to limit its spread into the western territories.
• E) The Constitution granted the federal government the right to tax slaves as property, thus making them less profitable to their owners.

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