How did the discovery of gold in California impact the national debate over slavery?

It encouraged the expansion of slavery because enslaved people were needed to work in the mines.

It threatened to upset the balance of free states and slave states.

It proved that slavery wasn’t necessary for economic growth.

Question 6 of 27 1 point which of the following best describes the three-fifths compromise at the constitutional convention? o a. no more than three-fifths of a state's population could include slaves. o b. three-fifths of a state's slaves had to be released within 20 years. oc. slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining representation in congress. od. three-fifths of a state's population had to vote for slavery if a territory was to enter the union as a slave state. g