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The Three Fits compromise benefits which stas?

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Because Southern states had many more slaves than did Northern states, the Three-Fifths Compromise benefited Southern states more than it did Northern states in terms of representation in the House of Representatives.
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The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as people for this purpose. Its effect was to give the Southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally.
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