Three-Fifths Compromise

Target entity: Three-Fifths Compromise
Context triple: [Constitutional Convention, significantEvent, Three-Fifths Compromise]

• A. Great Compromise
  The Great Compromise was the 1787 agreement at the U.S. Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature by combining proportional representation in the House of Representatives with equal representation for each state in the Senate.
• B. Compromise of 1790
  The Compromise of 1790 was a pivotal political deal in early U.S. history in which Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison agreed to secure federal assumption of state debts in exchange for locating the national capital along the Potomac River.
• C. Missouri Compromise
  The Missouri Compromise was an 1820 U.S. federal statute that temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
• D. Compromise of 1850
  The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
• E. Lee Resolution
  The Lee Resolution was the 1776 proposal in the Second Continental Congress that called for the American colonies’ independence from Great Britain and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Three-Fifths Compromise
Target entity description: The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement in the early United States that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in Congress, entrenching slavery’s political power.

• A. Great Compromise
  The Great Compromise was the 1787 agreement at the U.S. Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature by combining proportional representation in the House of Representatives with equal representation for each state in the Senate.
• B. Compromise of 1790
  The Compromise of 1790 was a pivotal political deal in early U.S. history in which Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison agreed to secure federal assumption of state debts in exchange for locating the national capital along the Potomac River.
• C. Missouri Compromise
  The Missouri Compromise was an 1820 U.S. federal statute that temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
• D. Compromise of 1850
  The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
• E. Lee Resolution
  The Lee Resolution was the 1776 proposal in the Second Continental Congress that called for the American colonies’ independence from Great Britain and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence.
• F. None of above. chosen