Question

Which of the following best explains the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
Export taxes would not be allowed, but Congress could consider ending the slave trade after twenty years.

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

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

Congress could tax exports, but it would also tax imports giving the people more profits, and the slave trade could continue for five years.

Answer 1

An agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 protecting the interests of slaveholders by forbidding Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any State, and, for 20 years, the power to act on the slave trade.

The two issues that the Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise dealt with were whether Congress should be able to regulate trade and whether the United States should continue with slave trading. The North felt that Congress should control trade and also that they should put an end to slave trading. The South was wary of Congress regulating trade and, of course, wanted slave trade to continue. Again, the compromise was that Congress would be allowed to fairly control trade and the South would be allowed to continue trading slaves for 20 more years.

Answer 2

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