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What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
  1. It determined how votes are allocated to each member of the House of Representatives.
  2. It determined how to count the Native American population for purposes of proportionate representation in the Senate.
  3. It determined how to count the free population for purposes of proportionate representation in the House of Representatives.
  4. It determined how to count the slave population for purposes of proportionate representation in the House of Representatives.
  5. It determined how to count the slave population for purposes of proportionate representation in the Senate.
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Answer: D. The Three-Fifths Compromise determined how to count the slave population for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives. The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Delegates at the Constitutional Convention who opposed slavery did not want to count slaves at all, while those in favor of slavery wanted to count slaves as part of the general population.
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