What were the conditions created by the slave importation clause in Article 1 of the Constitution?
A. the clause prevented congress from banning the importation of slaves for 20 years and prevented the tax on importing an enslaved person from exceeding $10 per person
B. the clause increased the power of white voters in the South at the expense of the enslaved African Americans
C. the clause increased representation in Congress for the southern states
D. the clause barred people who had escaped slavery in the South from living as free people in northern states

The answer is: A

Explanation:

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1, is one of a handful of provisions in the original Constitution related to slavery, though it does not use the word “slave.” This Clause prohibited the federal government from limiting the importation of “persons” (understood at the time to mean primarily enslaved African persons) where the existing state governments saw fit to allow it, until some twenty years after the Constitution took effect. It was a compromise between Southern states, where slavery was pivotal to the economy, and states where the abolition of slavery had been accomplished or was contemplated.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

uncle sam would be tossing and turning in his grave : *)