The articles of the confederation was the document used to determine how slaves would be counted in a states population. The articles of the confederation were part of the Three Fifths compromise.
The southern, slave-owning states wanted to count slaves as people for the purpose of congressional representation; that would give the southern states more representatives in the Congress. It was the Northern, abolitionist states that didn't want to count slaves as people; that would increase the power of the North's congressional representatives.
there are 6 states but don't know which maybe the southern colonies
They were in the first census because they were treated better, but after a few years they weren't counted as human.
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They wanted to trade with america and they wanted more gold and other things so they slaved Africans.
The europeans wanted to make more money out of the americas.
europeans expected natives to become slaves and they wanted to spread their religious beliefs
The white plantation owners wanted to save money by not paying their workers so they decided to buy slaves. In the 1600's and 1700's there were lots of slaves for sale in Africa so the white people bought slaves from other Africans.
It was when the southerners wanted to include slaves in the population count even though they wouldn't let them vote. They wanted slaves to be counted because that would increase their states population, therefore giving them more represenatives in the House of Represenatives. The Northerners argued that since the slaves couldn't vote they sound not be counted. So, they agreed that 3/5 of the slaves in the state would be counted in the states population. That became known as the Three-fifths compromise. I am doing this for my homework now
To get both the northern and southern states to agree to it. The southern states wanted slaves counted in the population for determining representation in Congress (even though slaves couldn't vote). The northern states wanted them excluded.
In censuses, slaves counted as three-fifths (3/5) of a person.
When writing the US Constitution, the slave-holding states wanted to include their slaves when counting their population, because that would give them more representation in the House of Representatives.
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Southern states wanted to count slaves because the House of Representatives is based on population. The census is taken to determine how many representatives each state gets. Since the south was mostly made up of slaves, it would get more representatives if they were counted.
Yes, they wanted to include slaves within their population because it would allow more representatives to be able to join Congress and speak the "voice" of the Southern states.
The question was, how should slaves be counted for the purpose of Congressional representation? The South wanted to count all slaves as "population", because this would increase the number of Representatives from the slave states. The northern states didn't want to include slaves AT ALL; if they weren't fully citizens and couldn't vote, why should they be counted for purposes of representation? The "three fifths" compromise gave southern states some additional Congressional representation, without giving the South an overwhelming advantage.
no. they wanted slaves counted as full people so they could have more representatives in congress.
The "Three-Fifths Compromise" was not a constitutional amendment, but rather part of the actual Constitution written in 1787 (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3), as an attempt to get both slave states, who wanted slaves to be counted as people because of taxation reasons, and non-slave states, who didn't want slaves to be counted as people, to ratify the document.
The Southerners wanted more representatives in the House of Representatives, so they wanted slaves to count as people in order to inflate their numbers. The Northerners argued that since slaves had no rights to elect those representatives, they should not be counted (in order to give Northerners more relative representation). This debate was what resulted in the Three-Fifths Compromise, wherein slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person.