What is the great compromise and what did it do?

Answer 1

Delegate Roger Sherman introduced the Great Compromise to resolve a dispute between larger (higher population) states and smaller states to ensure fair representation in Congress by reconciling plans originating in Virginia and New Jersey.

Sherman's compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, combined ideas of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention. This Compromise created a bicameral (two house) legislature that had a lower house with representation based on population, to be calculated by census count every ten years (Virginia Plan), and an upper house based on equal representation of two Senators each, without respect to population (New Jersey Plan). The Upper House later became known as the US Senate, and the Lower House, the US House of Representatives.

The agreement also provided that all bills regarding taxes be initiated in the Lower House.

Apportionment by population protected the citizens' interests; equal representation preserved the balance of power between states.

The Great Compromised passed after eleven days of deliberation, but didn't completely satisfy the southern states, whose population consisted largely of slaves who weren't considered citizens. This issue was addressed by the Three-Fifths Compromise, which allowed the census to count each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportionment of Representatives in the House.

Answer 2

the great compromise was created because of 2 plans: the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. The Virginia plan wanted the amount of representatives to be based on population. the new jersey plan wanted the amount of representatives to be equal in all states. as a compromise, the decision was to have 2 groups of representatives; one based on population (house of representatives) and one that will have 2 representatives for each state (senate).

Answer 3

The Great Compromise concerned the question of whether the new nation of the United States, when it was formed in the late 18th century, would or would not permit the institution of slavery. The compromise was to allow it in some states (the south) and not to allow it in other states (including both the north, and any new states which would enter the union in the future). This compromise held until the Civil War, when it broke down.