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America has always been against immigration. Even as it was being built on the backs of immigrants from Europe, the colonists who were already here despised them. Xenophobia has been a part of American culture since it was founded. This long history with anti-immigration and nationalism coupled with white supremacy makes many Americans wary toward immigrants today.
It's the former practice of segregating black people in the US.
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Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
<u><em>BUT IT WAS MORE BENEFICAL FOR THE SOUTHERN </em></u>
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