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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."
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.
He defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
Answer: i think A.
Explanation: The islands of the Pacific have gradually been gaining independence: two countries in the 1960s including Western Samoa, six countries in the 1970s, and three countries in the 1980s. The most recent country to win independence is the Republic of Palau, which gained nationhood in 1994.
This isn't hard to answer - A; because Japan had so many small, isolated islands, governing the entire country was often very challengin. Imagine being the emperor or just in charge of a country which was composed of hundreds of islands. For your decree to get into motion on all of them, it needed a lot of time.
