Question

Which options concern the way slavery was addressed during the debates in the development of the US Constitution?

The Fugitive Slave Law

Three-Fifths Compromise

The slave trade clause

The 10th Amendment

Answer 1

The first three options. Briefly:

- Fugitive Slave Law (the Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause, Art. IV, §2) — required return of escaped “persons held to service or labour.”
- Three-Fifths Compromise — how enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation (Article I).
- The slave trade clause (Art. I, §9) — the compromise letting the international slave trade continue until 1808.

The 10th Amendment (powers reserved to the states) was not a specific slavery provision.