MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT
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Three-fifths of United States territory in 1787 would become slave states in 1800
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For every five enslaved Africans, three would be counted for representation
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A bill can only be passed with three-fifths majority of both the House and the Senate
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Three-fifths of the Senate would be up for reelection every two years
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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: -The Three-Fifths Compromise can best be described as follows: A slave would be counted as three-fifths of a white person for the purposes of taxation and representation.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Which of the following best describes why the three fifths clause was included in the constitution.-the number of slaves and free people living in many southern states out numbered the population in some northern states.