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Slavery and the U.S. Constitution

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Southern delegates wanted to protect slavery in the Constitution.

Most Northern states had already decided to abolish slavery, and also wanted the Constitution to outlaw it.

Those Northern states that had not completely outlawed slavery had passed gradual emancipation laws.

Southerners felt enslaved people could not be given their liberty.

But Northerners were afraid that Southerners would leave the convention if they did not get their way.

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Choose two words from the vocabulary list and write a new sentence for each word.

Vocabulary words: abolish, convention, delegates, emancipation, liberty

Choose two words from the vocabulary list and write a new sentence for each word.

Vocabulary words: abolish, convention, delegates, emancipation, liberty