What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Three fifths of the representatives in both the House and the Senate were needed to veto legislation signed by the President.
Each slave was counted as three fifths of a person to be added to a state’s free population in allocating representatives.
Southern states were given three fifths more power than northern states in Congress.
Three fifths of a state's representatives served in the Senate and the rest served in the House.
