What Was the Result of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution

question 19

Multiple Choice

What was the result of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution?

• A) It allowed three-fifths of free blacks to vote in urban areas.
• B) It pushed for three-fifths of all American taxes to come from foreign sources.
• C) It gave the South increased political power on the basis of people who could not have any say in government.
• D) Three-fifths of the slaves in the North had to be freed by 1787, the date of adoption of the Constitution.

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