The Three-Fifths Compromise __________.

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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a political agreement reached during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution in which each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of determining the total population in a state, which would be used to determine taxation and representation in Congress. This was a compromise with southern slaveholders who wanted slaves to be counted as full persons in order to gain more representation in Congress, while northern states wanted them to be counted as zero since they were not considered citizens.