The Great Compromise reconciled the differences between the Virginia and New Jersey plans, as well as resolving the debate over representation in Congress by creating a bicameral legislature with 1 house with proportional representation, creating 1 house with equal representation for all states, and allowing slave states to count each of their slaves as ⅗ of a white man. To begin, by having proportional representation in one house, the Great Compromise appealed to larger states and the Virginia Plan, which had suggested a bicameral legislature with proportional representation. In addition, the Great Compromise gave all states 2 delegates in the other house. This appealed to the New Jersey Plan, which suggested a legislature with one vote for
