Question

During the Constitutional Convention, disagreement over how to count enslaved people was settled by the

Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise.
Great Compromise.
Southern Compromise.
Three-Fifths Compromise.

Answer 1

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) three-fifths compromise.

During the Constitutional Convention, disagreement over how to count enslaved people was settled by the three-fifths compromise.

During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the Three-Fifths Compromise was the agreement reached by the delegates of the states that counted every slave in the United States territory as three-fifths of a person for porpuses of representation and taxation. This agreement gave the southern states more power. The decision also helped spread slaves in the south and displaced Native American Indians tribes.