Objective Summary:
- Now that the members of the continental congress decided on two houses (Great Compromise), they needed to determine how many representatives would come from each state for the House of Representatives (based on population)
- The South wanted their slaves to count in their population numbers (to get more representatives). Each slave counts as a person (1).
- The North thought that the slaves should not count at all towards the South's population since they didn't treat them as citizens (0).
- They came to an agreement, compromise, where the slave would count....but not as a full person.
- They would only count as 3/5 of a person. (Or, for every 5 slaves they would count 3 towards their population numbers)
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