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Which of the following best explains the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?

A.) Export taxes would not be allowed, but Congress could consider ending the slave trade after twenty years.

B.) Congress would only tax exports if the amount exported exceeded a certain limit, and the slave trade could continue.

C.) Export taxes would be allowed only on cotton and Congress would not consider regulating the slave trade for at least ten years.

D.) Congress could tax exports, but it would also tax imports giving the people more profits, and the slave tra

Answer 1

a

Answer 2

Northern free states felt that the economy was relying too much on slavery, so they proposed a ban on slavery. Southern states were unwilling to give up slavery so suddenly, for the sake of the survival of their agricultural economy. The commerce and slave trade compromise was that 20 years after the enactment of the constitution, the national government would ban the importation of slaves to the Unites States.