The three-fifths clause incorporated into the Constitution demonstrated that:
A) white Americans still treated African Americans as far less than equal.
B) the Articles of Confederation represented a viable model for governance.
C) the government was controlled by agricultural interests rather than commercial ones.
D) a centralized form of government would prove beneficial for the nation.
E) the federal government could not ignore the issue of debt.
A
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a. a Mandate of Heaven. b. the Qinese people. c. the Han people. d. the Xiongnu peoples.
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A) John C. Calhoun B) Frederick Douglass C) William Lloyd Garrison D) John Quincy Adams