Compromises In American History

A few compromises were established in about 1787 in America. Two of the compromises were the Great Compromise and also the Three-Fifths Compromise. The Great Compromise was the plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that created a two-house Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives bases representation from each state by the population of the state while in the Senate each state is represented by two senators elected by their state legislatures. People who wanted a strong government and states to have a strong voice got what they wanted from the Great Compromise with the Senate to represent the states and a different House of Representatives to represent the population of the people. Without Roger Sherman to give us the great idea of this compromise we might have not had America still standing in peace today. But, even though the Great Compromise was huge in American history, there was another big compromise in our history.
The other huge compromise in America’s history was the Three-Fifths Compromise. This basically said that slaves would count as three-fifths of a person when counting population for representation in The …show more content…
As all Americans know, not many people own slaves but more like employees to work for money that earn a minimum wage. We still use the Great Compromise today because it keeps America from being in a political argument on how we should vote. It also is still up because it is a great system for our political voting systems and works for us even if we get confused from time to time. If we still had slaves, the Three-Fifths Compromise would work very well and would keep states from having too much power over other ones. Even though America went through some difficult times, we were still able to have the right people there to help solve some major