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What Was the Result of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution

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What was the result of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution?


A) It allowed three-fifths of free blacks to vote in urban areas.
B) It pushed for three-fifths of all American taxes to come from foreign sources.
C) It gave the South increased political power on the basis of people who could not have any say in government.
D) Three-fifths of the slaves in the North had to be freed by 1787, the date of adoption of the Constitution.

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