False. The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that determined how slaves would be counted for taxation and representation purposes. It stated that three-fifths of the enslaved population would be counted when apportioning representatives in the House of Representatives. The establishment of a two-house Congress (composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate) was a separate aspect of the Constitutional framework and was part of the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise), which addressed the structure of Congress itself.
True or false?
The Three-Fifths Compromise gave us our two-house Congress.
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