Slavery Compromise

Slavery Compromises

#47 SS 7

Question:

How will enslaved people
count in terms of
representation?

Historical Context

● 90% of enslaved people

live in the South

● 40% of Southern

population was enslaved
people

● Great Compromise

bases representation on
population: Who
benefits from counting
enslaved people?

Northern
Perspective

● Enslaved people should

count as property: tax
property

● Enslaved people have no

rights should not count as
population

● This would give South

more representation =
more political power

Multiple Choice

How did the North want enslaved people counted in terms of representation

• As property

• As population

• As geography

Southern
Perspective

● Enslaved people

should as count as
population

● Enslaved people

should not count as
taxation

● Should not punish

Southern voters

Multiple Choice

How did the South want enslaved people counted in terms of representation

• As property

• As population

• As geography

⅗ Compromise

● Proposed by: James

Wilson (Pennsylvania)

● Enslaved people will count

as ⅗a person for
representation and
taxation

● South gets more

representation

● North gets more tax

money from the South

Multiple Choice

Under the 3/5 Compromise, enslaved people counted as 3/5 a person in terms of?

• Representation

• Taxation

• Representation and Taxation

A little math

● Virginia

○ 25 reps (count all

enslaved)

○ 15 reps (count no

enslaved)

○ 21 reps (count ⅗ enslaved)

● Pennsylvania

○ 15 reps (count all

enslaved)

○ 15 reps (count no

enslaved)

○ 15 reps (count ⅗ enslaved)

Multiple Choice

What states benefitted the most from the 3/5 compromise?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• States with a small population of enslaved people

Other Slavery
Compromises

● Slave Trade Compromise:

Congress could not ban
the trade of enslaved
people until 1808

● Fugitive Slave Law:

enslaved people who
escape to Northwest
Territory must be returned
and New England states
get lower taxes