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Northern delegates did not want slaves to count as people when determining a state's population. They wanted equality in the government.

a. True
b. False

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The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the dispute over counting enslaved people for representation and taxation during the Constitutional Convention, counting each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person. Additionally, no state constitution in the Revolutionary Era granted women the right to vote.

Step-by-step explanation:

The disagreement at the Constitutional Convention regarding slavery and the counting of enslaved people for representation was resolved with the Three-Fifths Compromise. This compromise, reflected in Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, determined that each enslaved person would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of both taxation and representation, affecting both the number of representatives in the House and the tax contributions of the states. It was a contentious way to balance the interests of Southern slave-owning states, who wanted enslaved people fully counted to increase their political power, and Northern states, some of which opposed counting enslaved people at all as they believed it would unfairly tilt representation towards the South.

Regarding women's suffrage, the statement is true that no state constitution during the Revolutionary Era allowed women the right to vote. Equality in terms of voting rights was limited for women until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, long after the revolutionary period.

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