What issue was addressed by the Three-Fifths Compromise?



how to regulate trade with foreign nations

how to admit new states to the Union

how the slave population would be counted

how a federal executive would be chosen

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The issue addressed by the Three-Fifths Compromise was how the slave population would be counted for purposes such as determining representation in the House of Representatives and taxation. The compromise decided that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's total population for those purposes.