In 1787, states sent representatives to Philadelphia to revise the___________. But after the representatives arrived, they realized the Articles could not be saved, so they agreed to completely change the national government. What resulted was the creation of the ___________. There were a number of compromises that would be made before the new government could be created.
One of these was regarding how population would be counted, particularly for representation in the new Congress. Remember that the Response area created a 2-house Congress: the ___________ would contain two representatives from every state, while the ____________ would have its members based on the population of a state. But in many states, a large percentage of the population consisted of enslaved people, who were not considered citizens. How should they be counted in terms of determining the representation a state would receive in part of Congress? ___________ states did not want any enslaved people counted for the purposes of representation, only free citizens. However, ___________ states believed they figure towards Congressional representation. After much debate, the two sides reached a compromise, which became known as the ___________. This said that for every five enslaved people in a state, three would counted as population for purposes of determining congressional representation. But remember: this did NOT mean that anyone enslaved could vote or were considered to be _____________. Enslaved people were still treated as property in slave-holding states and had no legal rights.
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