16. Which statement best describes the boomtown of Lowell, Massachusetts? a. “Cotton is King. We primarily work at deseeding cotton on plantations”
b. “Our city has many young women who work in the textile mills”
c. “The steamboat made travel to Maine much easier.”
d. “We are at the center of communication and contact with the rest of the United States”

The three-fifths compromise was an agreement at the constitutional convention, which stated that in calculating population for state representation a. a slave counted as three-fifths of a human being b. women only counted as three-fifths of a person c. only three-fifths of a state’s population was allowed to be slaves d. only landowning citizens counted as a full person; all others counted as three-fifths of a person 98 points