Question

If Northerners found the three-fifths rule and slavery wrong, Southerners were perfectly willing to drive home the logic of emancipation: Emancipate them and they stay where they are; and two-fifths of their number will be added to the representation, though they are not permitted to enlist in our army."—Professor Margo Anderson, 2003 What concern of Northerners did the Southerners use in this argument? (5 points) Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Hello. You forgot to enter the answer options. The options are:

1) Trade protection

2) Morality of enslavement

3) Representation in Congress

4) Border disputes with Great Britain

Answer:

3) Representation in Congress

Step-by-step explanation:

As you can see, the above excerpt directly cites the concern of northerners in allowing the Three-fifths Compromise to be maintained for southern states. This is because the Three-fifths Compromise allowed three out of five slaves to be counted as an individual to determine the number of representations each state would have at the congress. This gave the southern states power, as it increased their population and allowed them to have a large government representation preventing the northern objectives from being implemented.