Ahsge Ss Review- Compromises

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During the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the larger states favored the Virginia Plan (representation in Congress based on_____) while the smaller states favored the New Jersey Plan (representation was equal for all states).

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population

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A compromise was proposed by Roger Sherman to combine the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. The ______________ Compromise or the _________________________ Compromise called for a bicameral (2 house) legislature with one part- the House of Representatives having representation based on the states’ population and the other part- the Senate- having equal (2 each) representation.

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Great
Connecticut

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The __________ Compromise was reached when there was a controversy over how to count the South’s slave population for representation in Congress.

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3/5ths

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First 10 amendments to the Constitution- was at the insistence of the anti-federalists. They would not ratify the document until this was added

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Bill of Rights

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Drew a line across the country at 36*30’. Everything above the line is closed to slavery, with the exception of Missouri which is a slave state and below the line open to slavery. (Maine was admitted as a free state at the same time as Missouri to keep a balance between free and slave states in the Senate.)

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Missouri Compromise or Compromise of 1820

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California was admitted as a free state, popular sovereignty would be used in Utah and New Mexico territories to determine free/slave states, and northern states must return runaway slaves to the South.

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Compromise of 1850

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The Election of 1876 led to the THIS where the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is allowed to claim the presidency in return for the promise to end Reconstruction. He defeated Samuel J. Tilden.

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Compromise of 1877

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He known as the Great Compromiser- authored the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.

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Henry Clay