USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States declared that any person who was not free would be counted as three-fifths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation. The “Three-Fifths Clause” thus increased the political power of slaveholding states.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three-Fifths Compromise An agreement added to the Constitution that would count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a white person for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is ironic that it was a liberal northern delegate, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, who proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, as a way to gain southern support for a new framework of government.

Detailed explanation-5: -The South wanted all persons, including slaves, counted as full people in the census which gave them an unfair advantage in population. The north wanted slaves excluded from the population for the purposes of representation and both sides settled on the 3/5ths counting of slaves.