Question
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned [assigned] ... according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons [enslaved African Americans].
-U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3
During the Constitutional Convention which group was satisfied with the addition of this clause?
• A. factory owners in the North
B. railroad workers in western territories
C. plantation owners in the South
D.
settlers in the western territories
-U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3
During the Constitutional Convention which group was satisfied with the addition of this clause?
• A. factory owners in the North
B. railroad workers in western territories
C. plantation owners in the South
D.
settlers in the western territories
Answers
GPT 3.5
C. plantation owners in the South