Explain The Three Fifths Compromise Of 1787

The Three-Fifths compromise of 1787 was passed at the constitutional convention, through a political argument of how or whether blacks should be counted as votes. The convention had unanimously accepted the new principal that blacks have ⅗ of a vote. With this new compromise also brought the southern political elites power with owning slaves. With owning slaves the elites were able to seize many votes in electoral colleges because of the ⅗ rule of slaves voting. Therefore he can get all the southern plantation owners to have their slaves vote for their candidate. This proposal was advocated for in 1783 in the “ Articles of Confederation “ during the time of Washington's Presidency. Slavery was a large topic back then at the beginning of America.

The proportion between slave and free states were very disproportionate. In 1793, for example, southern slave states had 47 out 105 members in the House of Representatives. The southern slave states were supposed to have 33. Later in 1812, salve states had 76 of the 143 seats instead of the 59 they were supposed to have. The southern slave states gradually rose to more than half the seats at its peak. This ⅗ compromise was defeating the system they had based on free population because the majority of the population in the south was black. Yet, if it wasn’t for the ⅗ compromise Thomas Jefferson would not have been elected and so

During the early stages of the civil war, many events and growing tensions created the secession of the southern states. The main factors of the cause if the civil war was really sectionalism between the north and the south. The tipping point of there early stages rested upon the election Lincoln, which angered the southern people incredibly. The ⅗ compromise also had very much to do with the causes of the civil war. With the compromise, the southern government was very rigged because large plantations could force the slave population to vote for whoever the south wanted in office. The country as a whole was never fully unified and from my standpoint, without the blacks, we would not be a united country today. The civil war was fought for a very moral reason later on but initially, it was fought to preserve the union, not the abolishing of slavery. The moral issue helped win the civil war for the north. Our country was doomed for this in regards to the early steps of the founding of this country. The ⅗ compromise caused so much turmoil from the political topic of slavery to corrupting the governments with forcing blacks to vote upon who the south wanted. The civil war will be ultimately inevitable because of how the north and south developed into two different societies and also with the ⅗ compromise clogging up the