MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
CREATING STATE CONSTITUTIONS AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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By providing for a two-house Congress, it satisfied big and small states.
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It provided only a one-house legislature based on population.
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It provided three branches of government.
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It provided a plan that gave smaller states the same number of votes in Congress as larger states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The compromise provided for a bicameral federal legislature that used a dual system of representation: the upper house would have equal representation from each state, while the lower house would have proportional representation based on a state’s population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Compromise settled the method of representation in the legislative branch. Small states wanted equal representation, and large states wanted representation based on population (equality by vote). Under the compromise, all states were represented equally in the Senate. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Compromise was a solution where both large and small states would be fairly represented by creating two houses of Congress. In the House of Representatives, each state would be assigned seats in proportion to the size of its population. In the Senate, each state would have two delegates regardless of size.