The White Male Elite Delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention

question 3

Multiple Choice

The white male elite delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention have all the following in common EXCEPT:

• A) they are all men of European origin.
• B) most of the 55 men are well-off by the standards of their day.
• C) at least 40 percent of them have been or are slaveowners.
• D) none of them profit from commerce in slave-produced agricultural products or by supplying provisions to slaveholders and slave traders.

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