Question

Which of the following best explains the Three-Fifths Compromise? Delegates agreed that three-fifths of the voting members had to be in favor of a law before it was written into the Constitution. Delegates agreed that three out of five members of the House or Senate from each state must be men who had served in a branch of the military. Delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in Congress. Delegates agreed that each state must have at least three out of five delegates present at the Constitutional Convention for that state to get a vote.

Answer 1

Delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in Congress.

Answer 2

Answer: Delegates agreed that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining the population and representation in Congress.

Details:

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a way of accounting (somewhat) for the population of slaves in states that permitted slavery. For taxation and representation purposes, the question was whether slaves should count in the population figures. (They were not considered voting citizens at that time.) 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.