The Great Compromises

THE GREAT COMPROMISE

3/5 Compromise
The result in population

GREAT COMPROMISE

• Many people at the Constitutional Convention came from many backgrounds.
• They argued about how many representatives each state should have.
• This came to be the Virginia Plan.
• The delegates conversation about this Virginia Plan.
• The Virginia Plan was were each state would have a different number of representatives based on the state's population.
• The smaller states then favored the New Jersey Plan.
• The New Jersey Plan says that the number of representatives would be the same for each state.

GREAT COMPROMISE

• Roger Sherman insisted on a two-house legislator, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.
• The Senate would have an equal amount of representatives for each of the states.
• This would satisfied the smaller states.
• The House of Representatives would also include one representative for each 30,000 individuals in each of the states
• So this pleased the larger states

THE GREAT COMPROMISE

3/5 COMOROMISE

• The 3/5 compromise was the determination of each state's representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• This was to gain support for a new framework for the government.
• Southern states wanted representation according to population.
• Soon after the Virginia Plan was rejected the 3/5 Comprise almost guaranteed that the South would be strongly represented.

3/5 COMPROMISE

• The issue to count slaves split the delegates into two groups.
• The northern state regarded counting slaves as property and should not receive representation.
• But the Southern insisted on have the each groups be counted together.
• This compromise allowed the states to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House.

3/5 COMPROMISE

The Great Compromises
Changed many things in the government