The correct answer is: A. a slave counted as three-fifths of a human being.
The three-fifths compromise was adopted to determine how slaves would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation in the United States.
The three-fifths compromise was an agreement at the Constitutional Convention, which stated that in calculating population for state representation __________.
A.
a slave counted as three-fifths of a human being
B.
women only counted as three-fifths of a person
C.
only three-fifths of a state’s population was allowed to be slaves
D.
only landowning citizens counted as a full person; all others counted as three-fifths of a person
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