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They could get more representation in the House that way, even though otherwise slaves were not considered people but were just property.

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What did the threefifths compromise do?

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The Three-Fifths Compromise in the United States Constitution allowed slave states to count three-fifths of their enslaved population for the purposes of determining representation in Congress. This compromise gave slave states more political power in the federal government.


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If the following who wanted slaves to count in their total population?

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The three-fifths compromise


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What did the 35ths compromise allow the slaves states to do?

It allowed the slave states to count most of it's slaves in order to have more representation by population. The non-slave states discouraged slavery and put in the 3/5ths clause because of it. It was not meant to mean a slave was only 3/5ths of a man as some would have you believe.