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Multiple Choice

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-A law passed in four northern states that balanced civil rights against property rights by providing a multi-stage process for freeing slaves, distinguishing persons already alive from those not yet born and providing benchmark dates when freedom would arrive for each group.

A) Antifederalists
B) Articles of Confederation
C) Federalists
D) gradual emancipation
E) New Jersey Plan
F) Newburgh Conspiracy
G) Northwest Ordinance
H) republicanism
I) Shays's Rebellion
J) three-fifths clause
K) Treaty of Fort Stanwix
L) United States Constitution
M) Virginia Plan