William Paterson presented the plan to the convention on June 15, 1787 (constitutioncenter.org). The large states disliked this plan, because it gave a citizen from a their state a less influential vote than a citizen from a small state.

Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

Massachusetts Anti-Federalists Oppose the Three-Fifths Compromise. The ratification of the United States Constitution was the subject of intense debate between 1787 and 1789.

The issue with slaves and their representation and taxes led to the 3/5 compromise. The framers of the Constitution created checks and balances because they didn’t want anyone to become too powerful.

The northerners regarded slaves as property who should receive no representation. Southerners demanded that Blacks be counted with whites. The “Three-fifths Compromise” allowed a state to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House.

3/5 = 35 = 0.6.

The Great Compromise created two legislative bodies in Congress. According to the Great Compromise, there would be two national legislatures in a bicameral Congress. Members of the House of Representatives would be allocated according to each state’s population and elected by the people.

This compromise said that for every 3 our of 5 slaves would count towards a states population for representation. A portion of the slave population was counted for legislative representation. A federal law enforcing the return of fugitive slaves was passed.

the one that correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedman would be: Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law. The compromise of 1850 regulates the status of both escaped slaves and freedman during the Mexican-American war.

Why were Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention willing to accept the Three-Fifths Compromise? It allowed the South to expand its industrial output. Why did the Anti-Federalists demand that a bill of rights be added to the US Constitution? To protect individual freedoms from the federal government.

The Southern states wanted to count the entire slave population. This would increase their number of members of Congress. The Northern delegates and others opposed to slavery wanted to count only free persons, including free blacks in the North and South.

Each state would be equally represented in the Senate, with two delegates, while representation in the House of Representatives would be based upon population. The delegates finally agreed to this “Great Compromise,” which is also known as the Connecticut Compromise.

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Mason refused to sign the Constitution and lobbied against its ratification in his home state, believing the document as drafted gave too much power to a central government and was incomplete absent a bill of rights to guarantee individual liberty.

What were the results of the Missouri Compromise? In 1819 Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state. Admitting any new state, either slave or free, would upset the balance of political power in the Senate. The Missouri Compromise called for admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Missouri Compromise, (1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state (1821). It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.

What is the Reason that the Missouri Compromise did not have lasting effects? It only applied to the lands of the Louisiana Purchase. Which of the following laws would the Free-Soil Party have supported? In what way did Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the attitude of Northerners about slavery?

Though the Missouri Compromise managed to keep the peace—for the moment—it failed to resolve the pressing question of slavery and its place in the nation’s future. The controversial law effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery in the region north of the 36º 30′ parallel.

In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. …

a Missouri wanted to be a free state, so the South did not want to admit it to the union. b Missouri would upset the balance between the equal number of slave states and free states.

-MISSOURI entered the US as a slave state. -MAINE entered the US as a free state. -Slavery was banned in parts of the Louisiana territory north of the parallel.