Sectional divisions between the North and South in the United States began long before the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) and, in fact, were noted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It was during this convention that the first in a series of compromises between North and South was made law through the Three-Fifths Clause in the US Constitution. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a concession to the Southern states, with fewer people than the North, agreeing to count three out of every five enslaved Africans as part of a state's population to inflate numbers and give Southern States more balanced political power in the House of Representatives.
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