What the Heck is the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Compromise of 1850???

Question

A prompt response is preferable.

Answer 1

The three-fifths clause was actually a compromise reached during the original drafting of the constitution. Northern states wanted to only count free citizens for census purposes (which determined the number of representatives in congress) while southern states naturally wanted to count their copious numbers of slaves as well. The deal decided that a slave would count as three-fifths of a person for those purposes. This decision also became pointless with the 13th Amendment in 1865, when everyone was freed.

The Compromise of 1850 occurred much later, to resolve some of the issues with territory acquired from Mexico. In that sense, it was not entirely dissimilar to the Missouri Compromise (of 1820). California was admitted as a free state (by the Missouri Compromise it should have been a slave state) and slavery was prohibited in Washington D.C... the trade-off was the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act which required the law officials even in free states to cooperate in enforcing the laws of slave states regarding runaway slaves. Some credit the Compromise of 1850 with defising some of the rising tensions between the North and South and putting off the American Civil War, but I don't think anyone even then thought things would remain resolved for long, though.

Answer 2

To an quantity... they have been the two compromises that gave constituencies a fragment of a vote by way of popularity that the individuals in those constituencies weren't being totally represented.

Answer 3

I believe it relates to Black people being considered as 3/5 of a person.

Answer 4

I don't like people that demand prompt answers, so I won't tell you. But, I can tell you that they aren't in the same time period.
Oh, and don't capatilize heck. It looks stupid.