Both the connecticut compromise and the three-fifths compromise were crucial to the small states because

indigenous people north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were killed by europeans through slavery, rxpe, and war. in 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere. by 1691, the population of indigenous americans had declined by 90-95 percent, or by around 130 million people."

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jim crow laws were enacted in northern states.