James Edward Oglethorpe, a philanthropist and an English general, along with twenty-one other men, created a charter to settle a new colony which they named Georgia in honor of King George II. ... In 1732, King George II, under the persuasion of Oglethorpe, signed off on the last of the 13 colonies
Answer: B. only <em>three-fifths</em> of the enslaved population would be counted when calculating each state's representation in Congress.
The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The question was whether the slave population would count when determining a state total's population number, which would be used to determine the number of seats that each state would have in the House of Representatives.
The compromise that was reached was to count every three out of five slaves as a person for this purpose. It gave the Southern states a third more seats in Congress than if slaves had been ignored.
