Slaves counted as three-fifths (3/5) of a person when censuses were taken to determine representation in Congress. This meant that the southern states had a smaller population count, and therefore, fewer members in the House of Representatives.
The concept of Compromise worked OK before the Mexican War, when the 'West' just meant the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. After the Mexican war, the concept of Compromise did not work. The vast new territories acquired from Mexico could not be accommodated according to this kind of ruling.
Several things contributed to the start of the War Between the States. The most immediate cause was the South firing on Fort Sumter. The next direct cause was the secession of the southern states from the Union.
The Missouri Compromise of 1850 was made a moot compromise with the introduction of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Neither pieces of legislation can be demonstrated as a cause of the US Civil War. And, both laws were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the Dredd Scott case of 1857.
It allowed the slave-empire to extend Westward, so you could claim that it gave substance to the future Confederacy. But if there had been no compromise, the war would have started much sooner.
The cause is the Compromise of 1850, and the effect is the Southern filibuster ventures.
The Three-Fifths Compromise meant that a black person was 3/5 of a person. The compromise put off any real final solution to the slavery question until it got bad enough to cause the American Civil War.
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The Three Fifths Compromise is one of the most controversial parts and outcomes of the Constitutional Convention. For the allocation of seats in the US House of Representatives, a black person counts for three fifths of a white person.
The three-fifths compromise made three-fifths of the slaves count in the Census when it was taken in order to see how many represenatives the Southern states would get since representation in Congress in the House of Representatives is based on population alone. This also made three-fifths of the slaves count for taxation purposes, also, to be fair to the Northern colonies that did not have slaves but still wanted equal representation in Congress.
The concept of Compromise worked OK before the Mexican War, when the 'West' just meant the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. After the Mexican war, the concept of Compromise did not work. The vast new territories acquired from Mexico could not be accommodated according to this kind of ruling.
The concept of Compromise worked OK before the Mexican War, when the 'West' just meant the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. After the Mexican war, the concept of Compromise did not work. The vast new territories acquired from Mexico could not be accommodated according to this kind of ruling.
Several things contributed to the start of the War Between the States. The most immediate cause was the South firing on Fort Sumter. The next direct cause was the secession of the southern states from the Union.
The Missouri Compromise of 1850 was made a moot compromise with the introduction of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Neither pieces of legislation can be demonstrated as a cause of the US Civil War. And, both laws were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the Dredd Scott case of 1857.
It allowed the slave-empire to extend Westward, so you could claim that it gave substance to the future Confederacy. But if there had been no compromise, the war would have started much sooner.
The cause is the Compromise of 1850, and the effect is the Southern filibuster ventures.
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