Even though the Three-Fifths Compromise supported Northern and Southern states grasp an agreement that enabled for ratification of the Constitution, in the long run, it harmed the nation because it was only a temporary resolution to the argument between " slave " and " free " states. In fact, the 13th Amendment of 1865 successfully cleaned the three-fifths compromise by banning slavery.
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However, when the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, it legally lifted the three-fifths compromise. Section 2 of the amendment says that seats in the House of Representatives were decided according to " the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
The repeal of the compromise made the South more represented because members of the previously enslaved African-American population were now fully counted. However, this population pertained to be denied full citizenship benefits.
The South ratified laws like the "grandfather clause" which was intended to revoke African-American suffrage, even when the black population gave them more impact in Congress. The additional vote power not only provides the Southern states more seats in the House but also more electoral votes.
Members of Congress from other regions tried to reduce the power of the South's vote because African-Americans were deprived of their vote there, but the 1900 proposal to do so never appeared. Ironically, this is because the South had too many representatives in Congress to allow a change. Until very late in the 1960s, the Southern Democrats, so-called Dixiecrats, pertained to use disproportionate power in Congress.
This power was based in part on African-American populations, who were totaled for representation purposes but who were banned from voting by grandfather clauses and other laws that intimidated their livelihoods and even their lives. The Dixiecrats employed the power they had in Congress to slab attempts to make the South a more justifiable place.
However, finally, federal laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would spoil their attempts. In the civil rights movement, African-Americans required the right to vote and eventually became an influential voting bloc.
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KEYWORDS : Three-Fifths Compromise, outlawing slavery
Subject : Social Studies
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Three-Fifths Compromise
