Under the Three-Fifths Compromise, each woman and slave living in the Southern states would count as three-fif

Question

True or False??

Answer 1

The three-fifths compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention in which only three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegate James Wilson.

Northern delegates generally wished to count only the free inhabitants of each state. Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention, on the other hand, generally wanted to count slaves at their actual numbers. Since slaves could not vote, Southern slaveholders would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and Electoral College (taxation was only a secondary issue). The final compromise of counting slaves as only three fifths of their actual numbers reduced the power of the slave states but is still generally credited with giving the pro-slavery forces disproportionate political power in the U.S. government from the establishment of the Constitution until the Civil War.

The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution:

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

Answer 2

False - only slaves were counted as 3/5, not women. This was actually a compromise. People wondered how to use a census to determine how many members a state would have in the House of Representatives, and also the census would be used for taxation. However, some people felt that slaves should not be counted at all, while those in the South felt they should be counted as full residents. They compromised and made it 3/5.

Unfortunately it has been suggested today that this was the founding father's true feeling about slaves as humans, they were only worth 3/5. I doubt that any founding father, even the slave owning ones like Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry would accept that idea.

Answer 3

They (slaves and women slaves) got a 3/5 population representation in Congress
It said that in the constitution

Answer 4

The three fifths compromise only related to slaves, and it was the northerners who opposed counting them. The Northern politicians considered them to be property and did not want their numbers to be used to determine representation in the House of Representatives. The Southerners considered them people, and wanted them counted as such.

Answer 5

False, slaves only and it applied across the entire United States.

Answer 6

False. Slaves counted as 3/5th person. White woman were whole persons, although they couldn't vote.

Answer 7

each slave encluding slave women would be counted as three-fifths a person
but not white women they were 1 person

Answer 8

I don't think women were included in that, only slaves.