Answer:
Because then the Southern states would have more members in Congress.
Explanation:
The Southern states wanted to count all slaves towards their population. This was because the more population a state had the more members of congress they would have. This didn't sit well with the Northern states that wanted to count only free persons towards the population. This was settled by counting 1 slave as 3/5 of a free person.
<span>Immigration to America has come in batches in term of the origin of the people and in 1960 there were 7,256,000 immigrants from Europe who came to America. This was 74.5% of all people that immigrated to America that year.</span>
Slavery was against Mexican law, but Americans brought slaves to Texas. Many American settlers and Tejanos, or Mexicans who lived in Texas, wanted to break away from Mexico. They did not like laws made by Santa Anna, Mexico's president and the Tejanos and Texans decided to fight for independence.
