Question

Which best describes how the Three-fifths Compromise decreased sectional tension at the Constitutional Convention?

A. The compromise required governments of free states to help recapture runaway slaves who had escaped.

B. The compromise counted slaves as three-fifths of a free person for both representation and direct taxation

C. The compromise counted slaves as three-fifths of a free person to determine their representation in the Senate

D. The compromise counted free persons as three-fifths of a slave for both representation and direct taxation.​

Answer 1

C. The compromise counted slaves as three-fifths of a free person to determine their representation in the Senate