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Decided during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, this accommodation on representation in the proposed US House of Representatives tacitly acknowledged slavery and kept the Southern slave states from rejecting the Constitution. It was called____________.

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the three-fifths compromise

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The three-fifths compromise was not about slavery being right or wrong, it was about how slaves would count for taxation and representation purposes (in the house of representatives). Before 1868, slaves were not considered citizens, but their population in southern states was very significant, so the 1787 constitutional convention established that each slave would count as three-fifths of a citizen.

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