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What was 3/5 compromise??

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Answer: it’s that three fifths of the slave population would be counted, to increase population for votes in house, it did not give them the right to vote.

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Answer:Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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