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Explain what the Three-Fifths Compromise was and why it was created by

delegates at the Constitutional Convention.

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Constitutional Convention saying that three fifths of a state’s slave population would count towards its total population, a number which was used for determining representation in Congress and the tax obligations of each state.

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