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the three - fifths compromise is an agreement made at the constitutional convention between northern states , which owned few slaves .and southern states , which owned many slaves . the states agreed that an enslaved person would count as three - fifths of a person in determining representation in congress.

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He knelt on one knee to propose to her. He tried to propose a compromise, but they wanted nothing to do with it.


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He proposed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.


What did compromise of 1850 propose?

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Who proposed the establishment of two houses of Congress?

In American politics, the man to propose a two-house legislature was Roger Sherman when he came up with the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.


Did John Locke propose the Great Compromise?

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Why did Henry Clay propose what came to be known as the Compromise of 1850?

to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery


What did Roger Sherman of Connecticut and his committee propose as a solution to the question of determining how states were to be represented in Congress?

The Great Compromise.


Did roger sherman propose a two-house legislature as a compromise between the small states and the large states?

Yes, he did.