MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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Northern women
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Southern plantation owners
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Northern factory workers
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Southern slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The Three-Fifths Compromise, reached during the Constitutional Convention in 1787, benefited slave states. During the convention, there was disagreement about whether slaves should count toward a state’s population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Origins of the Three-Fifths Compromise It benefitted Southern states to include enslaved people in their population counts, as that calculation would give them more seats in the House of Representatives and thus more political power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Three-Fifths Compromise greatly augmented southern political power. In the Continental Congress, where each state had an equal vote, there were only five states in which slavery was a major institution. Thus the southern states had about 38 percent of the seats in the Continental Congress.