Question 13 • WV-US Studies
The dispute was over whether enslaved people would count toward a state’s population when determining representation in Congress and taxation. The Three-Fifths Compromise counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for those purposes, resolving a disagreement between states that permitted the slave trade and states that opposed it. Therefore, the answer is C, states that did and did not allow the trade in enslaved people.
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