MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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grievances included in the Declaration of Independence
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provisions found in the Articles of Confederation
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compromises reached at the Constitutional Convention
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amendments included in the Bill of Rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Each state would be equally represented in the Senate, with two Senators, while representation in the House of Representatives would be based upon population. The delegates finally agreed to this “Great Compromise, ” which is also called the Connecticut Compromise.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Three-Fifths Compromise was reached among state delegates during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Three-Fifths Compromise An agreement added to the Constitution that would count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a white person for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives.
Detailed explanation-4: -The South wanted all persons, including slaves, counted as full people in the census which gave them an unfair advantage in population. The north wanted slaves excluded from the population for the purposes of representation and both sides settled on the 3/5ths counting of slaves.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Virginia Plan, drafted by James Madison and introduced to the Convention by Edmund Randolph on May 29, 1787, proposed the creation of a bicameral national legislature, or a legislature consisting of two houses, in which the “rights of suffrage” in both houses would be proportional to the size of the state.