THREE COMPROMISES

CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE

• Disagreement over representation in congress led to this
• Gave smaller states equality
• Congress should be composed of 2 houses
• Senate represented equally
• House- represented based on size of population

THREE-fIFTHS COMPROMISE

• Count the population of states for taxing
• All slaves are counted as three fifths of the population
• Have to pay extra for slaves
• Rich have to pay more for slaves
• Showed tensions between north and south

COMMERCE AND SLAVE TRADE

• Congress was forbidden to tax the export of any state
• Couldn't stop if for up to 20 years
• Allowed the south to have a big boom without being taxed
• Would get out of hand with trade
• No longer agricultural (could lead to slave trade)