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Although the Three-Fifths Compromise helped Northern and Southern states reach an agreement that allowed for ratification of the Constitution, in the long run it had a negative effect on the nation because
A) it gave too much power to the executive branch of the government.
B) it forced the Founding Fathers to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
C) it was only a temporary solution to the argument between "free" and "slave" states.
D) it gave too much power to state governments and not enough to the federal government.


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FlorenciaT

Hello!

The correct answer is C

The compromise of the three-fifths was a compromise reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 between the states of North and South. This compromise considered in the counting rules of the people represented in the House of Representatives, a slave is recognized up to three-fifths of a slave states. This compromise was registered in the United States Constitution, in Article I, Section 2, clause 3. Such resolving of the slavery problem in a long term was one of the causes of Civil War



maddy3lizabeth
The answer is C. It was only a temporary solution to the argument between “free” and “slave” states.

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