Why did the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise involve so much debate and discussion? The states were not ready to give up all of their independence. The states believed the Articles of Confederation were adequate. Each state was certain that cooperation would lead to mutiny.

The Great Compromise settled matters of representation in the federal government. The Three-Fifths Compromise settled matters of representation when it came to the enslaved population of southern states and the importation of enslaved Africans. The Electoral College settled how the president would be elected.

The Great Compromise resolved a dispute between small population states and large population states. The Three-Fifths Compromise said that three out of every five slaves could be counted when determining a state’s population size for determining how many seats that state would receive in the House of Representatives.

What did the Constitution say about the “Three-Fifths Compromise”? It said that slaves could be counted as 3/5 of a person for both representation and taxation. Also said that international slave trade would not cease (stop) for two decades (until 1808).

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.

Determined that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation. The compromise granted disproportionate political power to Southern slave states.

The Three-fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention due to disputes over how enslaved people would be counted when determining a state’s total population.

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.

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. Referendum.

The slave population would be counted at a three-fifths ratio for the purpose of representation in the Senate. Three-fifths of the slave population would be freed by 1808. The slave population would be counted at a three-fifths ration for the purpose of representation in the House of Representatives.

The Three-Fifths compromise gave southern states disproportionate representation in the House of Representatives relative to free states, thereby helping the southern states to preserve slavery.

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.

The compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation: the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state’s population.

The solution came in the form of a compromise proposed by statesmen Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut. The Great Compromise created two legislative bodies in Congress.

The combination of the New Jersey and Virginia plans, which gave equal representation to each state and representation due to population in separate branches of the house. Every state gets the same portion of the vote. You just studied 13 terms!