Question

How did a high enslaved population in the southern states threaten the people of the northern states?

Answer 1

or the answer to the question above, this refers to Three-Fifth Compromise where the South used the number of slaves in its territories to increase its representation. It gave the South more power by using the slave population to its advantage. ... It potentially gave the South more ..

Answer 2

The Southern territories were known to have a higher number of slaves. The three-fifths compromise was used as an advantage to the state.

The agreement included the slaves in the population of that region would be counted as three-fifths of their number.

This increased the image of that state. The north, however, did not have many slaves in its population.

Therefore, the enslaved southern states overpowered the northern states.