Connecticut Compromise

population of the state had no effect on the vote. This was used to make it even for all states even if they don’t have a large population. Eventual Compromise The Eventual Compromise was also known as the Connecticut Compromise. It was presented by Roger Sherman. The new compromise helped resolve issues of representation in congress. The compromise established a two house legislature. It proposed a solution to the debate on whether smaller or larger states should have more power. The…

PART 1: Using the four terms below and in 2 paragraphs, provide a explanation of each and how each relates to the other and what was the eventual outcome. 1. The Virginia Plan 2. The New Jersey Plan 3. The Great Compromise 4. 3/5th Compromise 5. Unresolved issues (pick 1 or 2 to list) The Virginia Plan was a plan suggested by Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph. The Virginia plan called for a two-chamber legislature where the representatives were proportional to…

If slaves were to count, the southern states would seem to have an unfair advantage when it came to population totals. The convention eventually decided on the Three-Fifths Compromise. This stated that every slave would count as three fifths of a person therefore not giving the southern states such a huge advantage over the smaller northern states. Even though it was designed to benefit both ends of the country, the southern…

representation based on population. This was called the Great Compromise and the Connecticut Compromise. The next issue was between the northern and southern states regarding slaves. Southern states wanted to count slaves as part of the population for the number of representatives that they were allowed, but not for taxes to pay to the federal government. A compromise, known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, was reached. This compromise called for slaves to counted as three-fifths of a person for…

They have also came up with the Three-Fifths Compromise, this is saying that all the slave states can count their slaves for their population. ⅗ of the slavery population in their state will be counted for, you may think that this will be giving the slaves rights, it doesn’t. They do not get any rights…

the government was forced to make a couple of major changes to it. The Great Compromise was one of the first compromises made. It combined the Connecticut compromise and the Virginia plan. It was decided that congress would be split into the Senate and the House of Representatives. When votes were counted, the senate would be based on equal representation and the house would be based on population. The Great Compromise created yet another problem to solve. Since the North didn’t rely too much on…

New Jersey plan, suggesting each state would have equal representation regardless of size. Both sides found it hard to find compromise. Smaller states even threatened to divide the union and find alliances in other countries. On July 16 Connecticut representatives, Rodger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, proposed a compromise. Which would come to be known as The Great Compromise laid out two form of representation. The House of Representatives where the number of representatives for each state…

necessity. Furthermore, the North was home to 7 in 8 immigrants that came to the America, placing more reliance on slavery than immigration. Moreover, there were more abolitionists in the North. John Brown, for instance, was a violent abolitionist from Connecticut. According to a biography on PBS.org (“John Brown,” n.d.), “Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers,” then, “he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harper’s…

some small states. It was written by the Connecticut Delegate Roger Sherman, who suggested that each state should have different size of the House of Representatives based on its population, and should represent equally in the Senate regardless of its population. It also influenced the thought of James Madison who wrote the Virginia Plan. He created a role called federal judges who is nominated by the president to modify the judicial system. The Great Compromise is a composition of the Virginia…

Father of the United States. He was also the first Mayor of New Haven Connecticut. He was in the group of men that drafted the Declaration of Independence along with the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Along with all of his other accomplishments he was a judge on the Superior court of Connecticut. The well-known “Connecticut Compromise” was the idea of Roger Sherman’s as well, he also was the representative for Connecticut in the United States Senate. Benjamin Franklin was also…