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The three-fifths compromise was designed to solve the issue of whether or not slaves should count in the total population. It was determined that each slave would count as three-fifths of one person.

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What did the threefifths compromise do?

allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person


The ThreeFifths Compromise determined how population would be counted for?

The Three-Fifths Compromise determined how population would be counted for....? Representation in Congress and also direct taxes on the population of the states.


What did the Missouri Compromise prevent?

The Missouri Compromise helped prevent the civil war by equalling the power in between free states(NORTH)and slave states(SOUTH)


What was the aim of the compromise of 1850?

To prevent secession of the South.


What did Henry Clay's compromise became know as?

Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 sought to balance the free states and the slave states in balance. The Compromise lost its value with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.


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What year did a compromise tariff prevent secession crisis?

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What was the aim of the critter den compromise of 1860?

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Newly formed middle of the road party of elderly politicians that sought compromise in 1860?

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What was the last failed effort to prevent the Civil War?

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Was the aim of the Crittenden Compromise of 1860?

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