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QuizMultiple Choice

Compromise and Discourse Today — Unit test

Question 16 • EA Academy Civics 9

How did Southern states and Northern states differ in their view of how a state’s population should be counted?

Answer
A
Southern states wanted to count the people they enslaved as part of their population.
B
Northern states wanted to count only free White people as part of states’ populations.
C
Southern states wanted to give enslaved people political power so they could be counted.
D
Northern states wanted to exclude free African Americans from states’ population counts.
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