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The Founding Fathers gained support for the Constitution by promising

A Bill of Rights would be established to protect individual freedoms

B. citizens would not be required to pay taxes

C. the President would be from the South

D. all free males would be able to vote

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The right answer is A. A Bill of Rights would be made to protect the freedoms of each person.

The Founding Fathers got people to agree to the Constitution by saying that a Bill of Rights would be added to protect people's rights. When it was written in 1787, the Constitution was met with a lot of opposition from anti-Federalists who were worried that the document did not protect individual rights enough. The Federalists, led by James Madison, agreed to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution so that they would vote for it.

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. It was added to the Constitution in 1791. It protects individual freedoms like freedom of speech, religion, and the press, as well as the right to keep and bear arms and protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The other choices are wrong because they don't say what the Founding Fathers said they would do to get people to support the Constitution. No one said that people wouldn't have to pay taxes, and no one said that the President would be from the South. Also, while the Constitution gave voting rights to more people than just those who owned property, it did not give all free males the right to vote.

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