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3/5 ratio for counting slaves, representation in the legislature, and the method of electing a president.
The disagreements and compromises finalizing the constitution were representation (The Great Compromise), slavery (Three-Fifths Compromise), and elections (Electoral College).
There was only one compromise regarding slavery and it was the three-fifths compromise which stated that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of assigning House of Representative seats. Another compromise during the Constitutional convention was the Great compromise which created a bicameral legislature and the creation of the electoral college for Presidential elections.
your teacher is a liberal, half the colonies would not have joined if there wasnt a compromise on slavery, america probably wouldnt exist. If there hadnt been a compromise then the south would have developed into a country where slavery was completely acceptable instead of what it is now.
The major compromises that the delegates agreed to make were The Connecticut Compromise, The Three-Fifths Compromise, and The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise.