in debates leading up to the three-fifths compromise, northern states argued that:

a. a strong federal government was necessary in order to ensure that slave states did not have an unfair economic advantage.

b. slaves should be able to buy their freedom after working for a certain number of years.

c. slaves should not be included when counting a state’s population to determine representation in congress.

d. southern states should only be allowed to send representatives to the house of representatives, not to the senate.

The Correct Answer is C

Slaves should not be included when counting a state’s population to determine representation in Congress.

Explanation:

In 1787 the Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement that arrived between the North and the southern states of the United States. This compromise was made on the over the debate that whether or not slaves should be calculated when preparing its total number of residents on the matter of tax and any law-making purposes.

The states in the North and the South were not able to decide or agree on how slaves would be calculated in the community.

Then it was concluded that every five slaves would be calculated as the three for taxation and representative purposes.

the first forms of writing came from them in the form of pictographs around 3100 bc.

missouri compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery