The Twenty Negro Law

question 22

Multiple Choice

The Twenty Negro Law

• A)replaced the three-fifths rule as the method of counting slaves for representation purposes.
• B)gave a draft exemption for one white man on each plantation that owned at least twenty slaves.
• C)provided that no more than twenty Negroes per week could be liberated by the Union Army.
• D)assigned free blacks and fugitive slaves to white military units in groups of twenty or more.
• E)required each plantation to send twenty Negroes to help the army.

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