You may perhaps be thinking of the Connecticut Compromise... though actually that did allow the larger and more populous states (which were, with the exception of New York and Pennsylvania, in the south at the time) to have considerable influence over the House of Representatives.
The three-fifths compromise gave the southern states an advantage by giving them a higher population with three-fifths of slaves counted. This in return gave the south more delegates in the House if Representatives which gave them political control
The Three-Fifths Compromise counted three-fifths of the state's slaves in apportioning Representatives. The compromise ended up giving the southern states 38 percent of the seats in the Continental Congress.
In the House of Representatives, the 3/5 Compromise gave southern states more representation and power by stating that each slave would count as 3/5 of a person.
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 Connecticut compromise is the same exact thing as the great compromise its just another name for it. so the Connecticut compromise/ the great compromise is when the larger states wanted the representatives to be determined on population and the smaller states wanted the representatives to be determined on equality/ equal amount of people on each side for representatives. so they came up with The House of Representatives and the Senate to solve the problem. The great compromise solved a lot of problems and issues that people had.
The thirteen colonies came together to fight the British but they had to make compromises to stay together. One compromise was to keep slavery since the southern states depended on it. Another compromise was representation. Each state had two senators but a number of representatives based on population. This was a compromise between big and small states.
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
The purpose of the Three-Fifths Compromise was so Northern and Southern states would accept the US Constitution. This is because Southern states wanted slaves to be counted towards their population so they would have more power in the House of Representatives, while Northern states did not want this. The Three-Fifths Compromise was basically meant to be a sort of compromise for each side, where three-fifths of the slave population would be counted, hence the name.
large states (large population) wanted the number a representatives to be determined by the population while small states (little population) wanted the number of representatives to be the same for every state. The compromise was to create the senate (2 representatives per state) and the house of representatives (representatives determined by population)
Leave the southern states immediately
Southern States. (NovaNet)
compromise of 1820