The three-fifths compromise
A) guaranteed at least three votes to small states for every five votes large states had in Congress.
B) reduced the tax imposed by the British on tea from five cents to three cents per pound.
C) counted five slaves as three free persons for the purpose of representation in the Congress.
D) guaranteed state governments at least three-fifths of all tax revenues raised by the federal government.
E) required a three-fifths majority to ratify the proposed Constitution.

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The three-fifths compromise was an agreement during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention that counted each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation in Congress.

The Three-Fifths Compromise