States were granted extra representation based on the number of slaves they held under which of the following?
A) The slavery population clause
B) The equal population clause
C) The three-fifths compromise
D) The five-eighths compromise
E) The census clause

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The three-fifths compromise counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of determining a state's population and, therefore, the number of representatives they would have in Congress. This gave states with large slave populations extra representation even though those populations could not actually vote.

States Were Granted Extra Representation Based on the Number of Slaves