3/5 Compromise Flashcards

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What is 3/5 Compromise?

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A clause to allow a slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of representation in the Congress. It was proposed in July 1787 during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. It was put down by the 13th amendment

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