Question

Which of the following required all states to return fugitive slaves to their owners?


the Great Compromise


the Three-Fifths Compromise


the Connecticut Compromise

Answer 1

None of the above. The requirement that states return fugitive slaves came from the Fugitive Slave Clause in the Constitution (Article IV, Section 2), not from the Great/Connecticut Compromise or the Three-Fifths Compromise. The Three-Fifths Compromise dealt with how enslaved people were counted for representation and taxation; the Great (Connecticut) Compromise created the bicameral legislature.