Every state had the same number of representatives.
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Who presented the Great Compromise?
Roger Sherman.
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What was the Proposal of the Great Compromise?
Agreement to create a two house legislature. House of Reps based on population, Senate based on equal representatives.
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Three-Fifths Compromise
Only three-fifths of a state's slave population could be counted during representation.
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What was the role of William Patterson at the Constitutional Convention?
He wrote the New Jersey Plan
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What are the two major plans for government?
The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.
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What were the two major compromises?
The Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise
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Constitutional Convention
Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
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Bicameral
Two house legislature
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Unicameral
One-house legislature
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Location of the Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia
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3/5ths Compromise
an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention stating that only three-fifths of the slaves in a state would count when determining its population fo
