Southern states did not like the Three-Fifths Compromise because it reduced the size of their population counted for representation in Congress. Every five slaves would only count as three people when it came time to elect the members of the House of Representatives.
Every slave was counted as three-fifths of a person.
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
it is a Compromise, which stipulates that three/fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of representation.
Three-fifths of a state's slave population counted toward representation and taxation.
The Perpouse of the three-fifths compromise was to make the population fare
it solved the issue of how people were going to be represented in government. the three fifths compromise stated that three out of five southern blacks would count as people, and the great compromise set up the bicameral houses of legislation. the house representation based on population, and the senate giving each state two representatives.
The Northern States were pleased by Three-Fifths Compromise.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise (during the Constitutional Convention in 1787).
The compromise that was reached over the issue of slave trade was "Three-Fifths Compromise's.
the three fifths compromise was discussed during the constitutional convention