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It allowed the slave states to count most of it's slaves in order to have more representation by population. The non-slave states discouraged slavery and put in the 3/5ths clause because of it. It was not meant to mean a slave was only 3/5ths of a man as some would have you believe.

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Which states did not allow slaves to serve in their militias during the revolutionary war?

Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Carolina


What was the Tallmadge Amendment?

The Tallmadge Amendment never passed. It was proposed in 1819 when Missouri sought statehood. It was a compromise that would allow slavery but end it in a generation by freeing the children of slaves. The House agreed but the Senate did not agree.


Congress agreed to allow two states into the union one free and one slave and established slavery policies in the Louisiana Territory What was this agreement called?

The Missouri Compromise


What 2 slave issues were discussed when creating the US Constitution?

The questions were whether to allow slavery (this decision was postponed for 20 years) and whether to count slaves as residents when determining Congressional apportionment and taxation (there was the 3/5 Compromise, which may seem ludicrous today, because the slaves could not vote).


What is the great compromise and what did it do?

Delegate Roger Sherman introduced the Great Compromise to resolve a dispute between larger (higher population) states and smaller states to ensure fair representation in Congress by reconciling plans originating in Virginia and New Jersey. Sherman's compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, combined ideas of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention. This Compromise created a bicameral (two house) legislature that had a lower house with representation based on population, to be calculated by census count every ten years (Virginia Plan), and an upper house based on equal representation of two Senators each, without respect to population (New Jersey Plan). The Upper House later became known as the US Senate, and the Lower House, the US House of Representatives. The agreement also provided that all bills regarding taxes be initiated in the Lower House. Apportionment by population protected the citizens' interests; equal representation preserved the balance of power between states. The Great Compromised passed after eleven days of deliberation, but didn't completely satisfy the southern states, whose population consisted largely of slaves who weren't considered citizens. This issue was addressed by the Three-Fifths Compromise, which allowed the census to count each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportionment of Representatives in the House.

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Why did northern states agree to allow the slaves trade continue?

the reason the northern states allowed slave trade to continue was so they could have laws they wanted passed to be agreed with by the southern states. within doing this, there was a compromise and the northern states agreed to it. so, the slaves we left as property to the plantation owners and northern states didn't have to return run away slaves to their owners.


What was problem was the Three-fifths Compromise designed to solve?

a disagreement between slave state and free states over whether slaves should be counted as part of the population


Which were the states didn't allow slaves?

The southern states did not agree with slavery so offered runaway slaves homes, food and care.


Did all Ancient Greek city states allow slaves?

No. Not all Ancient greek city states allow slaves b/c the laws are different and some rich people don't need slaves or don't have the money to afford one


What are the cons of the Missouri compromise?

Good question! The North benefited from the Missouri Compromise, because they received another state in the North (Maine) that did not allow slavery (because the North didn't like slavery.) The South benefited from the Missouri Compromise, because they received another southern state (Missouri) that was capable of having slaves. This way, both the North and the South had an equal amount of 12 Northern states and 12 Southern states.


What are the advantages and disadvantages of The Missouri Compromise?

An advantage to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was that slavery would not be permitted in the territory that is now the state of Missouri. A disadvantage to the Missouri Compromise was that people who believed in slavery in the South could not move north to gain more land and keep their slaves.


What was Millard Fillmore's major challenge?

Dealing with the disputes over slavery - whether to allow slavery in the new states and what to do about returning fugitive slaves. He pushed forward the Compromise of 1850 which was not successful and satisfied nobody.


What where the only two states that not allow slave enlistments in their militias?

nowadays, all states let their slaves enter the militia


State that did not allow state?

States in the north did not allow slavery until the 1830s. It was also illegal to bring slaves to the west and midwest.


How were the slaves treated in the US?

Slaves were not granted liberty in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, parts of the Constitution solidified their less-than-free position. The Constitution strengthened the power of slave states in several important respects. Through the Fugitive Clause, for example, governments of free states were required to help recapture runaway slaves who had escaped their masters' states. Equally disturbing was the three-fifths compromise, established for determining representation in the lower house of the legislature. Slave states wanted to have additional political power based on the number of human beings that they held as slaves. Delegates from free states wouldn't allow such a blatant manipulation of political principles, but the inhumane compromise that resulted meant counting enslaved persons as three-fifths of a free person for the sake of calculating the number of people a state could elect to the House of Representatives. The Constitution also allowed slaves to be imported into the United States until 1808.


What was the underlying issue the Missouri Compromise was intend to address?

The overriding issue was slavery. The compromise included The Fugitive Slave Act and agreement to allow slavery within the borders of Missouri.


Why was sectional compromise impossible in 1860?

Sectional compromise did not work in 1860 for many reasons. One of them being that this was the time during the great potato famine in Ireland, so the refugees cascaded into the northern states in the 1850's. Therefore, the north had no room. Once the Europeans were in America, they had no desire for the practice of slavery, and the north states were not convinced to compromise over slavery. The new compromise was put out for grabs, but Lincoln rejected it because he would not allow the extension of slavery. Also, the Crittenden Compromise would allow new slave states, but Lincoln would not accept this, either.