Answer:
"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."
Basically, the government was trying to decide how to count population to determine how much each place would get taxed. They viewed slaves more like objects at that time, the argument was whether to count them as a person/ citizen with a whole point or not at all. They decided to count each slave as 3/5 of a point.
Answer:
a cartel of oil producing nations whose goal was to fix oil prices and limit competition
Explanation:
O-organisation
P-petroleum
E-exporting
Conventionally, each state receives in the electoral collage THE NUMBER OF ELECTOR THAT IS EQUAL TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IT HAS.
An exception is Washington DC, which always has the same number of electors as that of the state that has the least population of people in US.
They wanted to obtain votes from states that were pro-slavery and by abolishing it they may have ruined the chances of receiving southern states votes for a declaration of independence
