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__** George Washingion **__



George Washingion was the oldest of six childern. He was borned in Wakefield Plantation, VA until he was 16. At the age of 16, in 1748, Washington joined a surveying party sent out to the Shenandoah Valley. In 1754, getting the rank of lieutenant colonel and then colonel in the militia. Washington led a force that wanted to battle the French for control of the Ohio River Valley. They were defeted at Fort Necessity, PA. In 1755 Washington reentered military service with the title of colonel as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock. Washingion almost died when the French defeated the general's forces in Battle of the Monongahela, PA.

The three fifths compromise was between southern and northern in 1787. The southern states wanted slaves to count for their population. The nothern states said that the slaves are property and they should not counted toward the population count. At the end they made a agreement that 3 out of 5 slaves will count toward the population.

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