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The US Constitution specified that Congress was free to outlaw the slave trade after 20 years. Congress did so the first date it was allowed.
The Constitution prohibited Congress from outlawing the Atlantic slave trade for twenty years.
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The constitution allowed COngress to outlaw the slave trade, which it promptly did.
To prevent excess membership in the House from states with thousands of slaves - giving the South excessive voting power in Congress - only 3/5 of the slave population would figure into reapportioning seats in the House.
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The Confederate Constitution called for the end of the slave trade but not?
(Slavery)
When the international slave trade ended and how did the slave trade continue?
Slave families were split up
Was the Atlantic Slave Trade the first kind of slave trade occurring in Africa?
No. Slavery and the slave trade had been going on in Africa for centuries before the Atlantic Slave trade came into being.
What country dominated the slave trade?
Britain dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
What country was the 1st to be invovled in the slave trade?
England was the first to be involved with the slave trade
What compromise stoped the slave trade in 1808?
The 1808 Slave Trade Compromise in the Constitution.
Did the Constitution immediately outlaw the foreign slave trade?
no
The Confederate Constitution called for the end of the slave trade but not?
(Slavery)
What year did the US Constitution permit the slave trade to continue?
1807
Constitution made slave trade legal until what year?
The United States Constitution protected the slave trade for twenty years. This protection was not to expire prior to the year 1808. After January first of that year, laws could take effect to end the slave trade in the United States.
Which changed to the US Constitution was a direct result of slave trade compromise?
Congress was given the power to ban the slave trade after 1808.
Why did the founders allow the slave trade to continue when they wrote the constitution?
for economic results
What year did the delegates of the constitution agree that they would NOT ban slave trade?
1868
The issue of slavery at the constitution convention was actually about?
The constitution should prohibit the states from participating in the international slave trade.
For how long did the Constitution forbid the federal government from interfering with the slave trade?
the answer is 10 years
Which was these was still a problem after the US constitution was written?
slavery and the slave trade were still legal
What was still a problem after the US Constitution was written?
Slavery and the slave trade were still legal.
