Question

True or False. Agrarian and slave states would not sign the Constitution unless the Slave & Trade Act & 3/5ths Compromise was added to it.

Answer 1

Answer: True

Step-by-step explanation:

When the Constitution was being drafted by the Convention, some Southern states such as Georgia and the Carolinas wanted their rights to have enslaved people protected by law.

As a result they refused to sign the Constitution unless it guaranteed that Congress would not ban slavery until the 19th century (Slave and Trade Act) and that when it came to Congressional representation, every 5 enslaved people would be counted as 3 people (3/5ths Compromise).